ABSTRACT
Gender continues to be one of the most frequently used categorisations in societal and organisational life and is often a focus for researchers and policymakers as they strive to reduce gender inequities in organisations, including those in sport (e.g., Hoeber, 2007; Pfister and Radtke, 2009). Gender equality and empowerment of women is one of the eight Millennium Development Goals that the United Nations developed in 2000. Today that goal is still relevant (Grown, Rao Gupta and Kes, 2005). The Olympic Charter (IOC, 2013) states that ‘Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender, or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement’ (p. 12). Yet women continue to remain relatively under-represented in positions of leadership, including those in sport (see Burton, 2015, for a summary of the research).
