The Coaching Review. Background The Leisure Review [The Coaching Review's sister title] is a magazine for practitioners in the sport, leisure and culture sector which in the five years since its launch has developed a strong sports coaching thread. This in turn has led us to offer the Coaching Insights seminars, a series of local opportunities for developed coaches to come together and debate issues of concern to them. Because we talk to and listen to coaches it has become increasingly obvious to us that sports coaches, coach developers and coach managers are concerned at the direction and speed of progress in the development of a UK coaching system. Last year we wrote to Lord Pendry expressing this concern and he was kind enough to invite us to submit this briefing paper.
To inform the briefing we contacted 111 members of the coaching community, including grassroots volunteers, professional coach development managers and senior academics. Introduction The current situation The way forward Final word August 2012. Sports-coaching-uk-I-final-report. The UK Coaching System is Failing Women Coaches - International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching - Volume 3, Number 4 / December 2008 - Multi Science Publishing. Authors Leanne Norman This paper engages with feminist cultural studies to illustrate how a cultural analysis of the coaching structure can contribute to our understanding of the underrepresentation of women in high performance coaching roles. Through the use of qualitative interviews with elite women coaches based in the UK, I highlight how the current coaching infrastructure and philosophies neglect women's potential and marginalise their position.
My analysis of the interviews revealed that the participants report minimal or inappropriate coaching opportunities for women coaches. The participants were also provided little incentive, recognition or educational support to facilitate their development. Rather than a 'glass ceiling', I argue that women's progress through coaching is more comparable to a 'bottle neck' analogy whereby as women advance, most are excluded from positions of power through flawed pathways and few chances to coach. Keywords Fulltext Preview (Small, Large) Sports-Coaching-in-the-UK-III.