I am a big sports fanatic myself, so I loved reading about gender and sports when I cam across reading #43 by Kaleido. One point in the reading he mentions that the majority of head coaches are male and not females. And a coach that was interviewed stated no women volunteer, when in reality the text says men mainly CHOOSE to to be coaches while women CHOOSE to be team parents or partake in another activity or hobby.
Now I can completely agree with this from personal experience, because I remember in 8th grade my dad stepped up and coached my YMCA basketball team when our head coach was gone for three weeks. It never even occurred to me that my mom would even offer to coach (which she didn't) and I think that deals with the main stereotypes we normally face as a society. While ANYONE can coach and I believe if you have the credentials it does not matter what gender you are, I think it is just the norm that men coach the majority of teams while mothers and females cheer from the stands. Not only that, but coaching takes a lot of work and if a mother already has prior commitments to helping raise the children or something along those lines it is even more difficult for them to stand up to the task.
If you have the credentials, by all means feel free to coach me! But I think from what the reading says and from what society says more men coach teams rather than women. And that is just how our society is run. Period. And I do not think anything is wrong with this?
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