Very impressive data gathering and very compelling article. I hope this leads to many programs implementing more support for female coaches and making it a goal to hire more female coaches, including minority candidates.
This is a good article, but it feels almost reductive to say the challenges people face in coaching to be exclusively a women's problem. This is a good old boy's club problem. There are many young professionals regardless of how they identify, who face these exact challenges. Abysmally low pay tough work-life balance lack of respect for credentials and just a general pressure to be committed to the field even if it's at the cost of your own personal health, Mental health, or financial stability. I've seen many good coaches, male and female enter And leave the profession simply because they do not see a clear pathway to success. And they are only making $5 10 15000 a year in mid-major in major cities around the U. S were the cost of living is not equivalent to what they're making. I've seen men miss Milestones from their children because of unrelenting and unsympathetic headcoaches, who will not give them the time of day to take time for their family instead of their team. I've watched guys leave the profession for very similar reasons. Feeling that they didn't have support a senior levels in a feeling that no matter how hard they tried or no matter what they did, they would never receive credit for their success.
I think coaching is a very difficult field to get into. And a lot of these problems are endemic of the field, not just women in the field.
Pretty much every point that this article addressed is also true for men in the field Lo pay, lack of work life balance, disrespect of credentials, silowing by more esteemed leadership. Lack of support from administration lack of respect because of the field itself (not a revenue-generating sport)
With that being said, women absolutely face this problem more frequently and often. But I think we really need to re-evaluate the system as a whole. Not just women's parts in that system. If everyone at the bottom feels like, there's no way to be successful or happy in the field, then we're never actually gonna make women feel welcome... It's a very vicious profession And people will do whatever they need to get to the top. Unfortunately, women take the brunt of that, more often than not.
Very impressive data gathering and very compelling article. I hope this leads to many programs implementing more support for female coaches and making it a goal to hire more female coaches, including minority candidates.
This is a good article, but it feels almost reductive to say the challenges people face in coaching to be exclusively a women's problem. This is a good old boy's club problem. There are many young professionals regardless of how they identify, who face these exact challenges. Abysmally low pay tough work-life balance lack of respect for credentials and just a general pressure to be committed to the field even if it's at the cost of your own personal health, Mental health, or financial stability. I've seen many good coaches, male and female enter And leave the profession simply because they do not see a clear pathway to success. And they are only making $5 10 15000 a year in mid-major in major cities around the U. S were the cost of living is not equivalent to what they're making. I've seen men miss Milestones from their children because of unrelenting and unsympathetic headcoaches, who will not give them the time of day to take time for their family instead of their team. I've watched guys leave the profession for very similar reasons. Feeling that they didn't have support a senior levels in a feeling that no matter how hard they tried or no matter what they did, they would never receive credit for their success.
I think coaching is a very difficult field to get into. And a lot of these problems are endemic of the field, not just women in the field.
Pretty much every point that this article addressed is also true for men in the field Lo pay, lack of work life balance, disrespect of credentials, silowing by more esteemed leadership. Lack of support from administration lack of respect because of the field itself (not a revenue-generating sport)
With that being said, women absolutely face this problem more frequently and often. But I think we really need to re-evaluate the system as a whole. Not just women's parts in that system. If everyone at the bottom feels like, there's no way to be successful or happy in the field, then we're never actually gonna make women feel welcome... It's a very vicious profession And people will do whatever they need to get to the top. Unfortunately, women take the brunt of that, more often than not.