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    Lack of female coaches in the women's game

    Why Don’t More Women Coach?

    This is not a dig at male coaches as coaching is fundamentally about connecting; making a kid believe in themselves and giving them a path. What better combination of signals do you project when you have a former female athlete who is able to say, ‘I know how you feel because I have been there myself’? Just wondering why majority of females are coached by men? and it's not just in soccer.

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    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    Why Don’t More Women Coach?

    This is not a dig at male coaches as coaching is fundamentally about connecting; making a kid believe in themselves and giving them a path. What better combination of signals do you project when you have a former female athlete who is able to say, ‘I know how you feel because I have been there myself’? Just wondering why majority of females are coached by men? and it's not just in soccer.
    Women are not logical. They make no sense half of the time. They would rather have something look nice than actually work. Sports is about winning not about how you look when you win.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      Why Don’t More Women Coach?

      This is not a dig at male coaches as coaching is fundamentally about connecting; making a kid believe in themselves and giving them a path. What better combination of signals do you project when you have a former female athlete who is able to say, ‘I know how you feel because I have been there myself’? Just wondering why majority of females are coached by men? and it's not just in soccer.
      Name half dozen of successful women coaches in all sports. There are quiet few out there. But before you jump out of your shoes I am female. Female athletes respond better to male coaches. We tend to defy each other. Our nature, sorry.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Women are not logical. They make no sense half of the time. They would rather have something look nice than actually work. Sports is about winning not about how you look when you win.
        You need to find some different women to hang with. Definetly not those I know

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Name half dozen of successful women coaches in all sports. There are quiet few out there. But before you jump out of your shoes I am female. Female athletes respond better to male coaches. We tend to defy each other. Our nature, sorry.
          Perhaps they see the foolishness for what it is.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            You need to find some different women to hang with. Definetly not those I know
            If you have kids that are female just ask them. If not just do survey with different athletes coached by women and men. We are talking sports, right?

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              #7
              There is a young female coach from western mass getting professional coaching experience over in Sweden.

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                #8
                I think we will see it get better over time. I've seen quite a few younger female coaches putting in their time at the lower levels (travel, etc.). One of my daughters right now has a female coach who is awesome and it's a great age for her to have this particular role model (D is 13). The other had a fantastic bball coach last winter. My girls have very different personalities but both responded well to them and in different ways. But it's also about having different coaches, not just that the coach is male or female. They all bring something different to the table,

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                  #9
                  I once heard a quote about coaching high school football: "You have to be smart enough to do the job, and dumb enough to think it matters." The 'smart enough' part doesn't rule out women coaches, but I think compared to men, fewer women have had sports be the formative, foundational, bedrock of their identity that would make them think it "matters". That is changing, but it is still a generation or more away.

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                    #10
                    The same quedtion is often asked why there aren't more women in politics. The answer is pretty easy to come by. Because they don't want to pursue these things. Their interest lie elsewhere and more often or not it is because they put family, friends, and career first.

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                      #11
                      Face it - coaching at a decent level isn't an easy path to pursue. It's especially tough once you start a family. Many, many weekends spent on the fields and not with your kids. I've seen plenty of male coaches divorce because of the strain it puts on marriages. The burden of raising kids in our society still falls mostly on women. Not saying it can't be done, but it is a reflection of our broader society.

                      That said I hope we see more - although we had two mediocre female coaches (one was very young on a boys teams who was very soft spoken and just couldn't command the boys' respect) we've also had two excellent ones. There's definitely a different kind of connections with girls.

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                        #12
                        This female coach issue is like the wage gap issue. Women now represent something like 51% of the workforce and are heavily represented in the managerial levels of most businesses (everywhere I have worked over the last 10 years I have had a female boss) yet they don't push for better wages for themselves nor do they push for other women to rise to the "C" and directorship levels. It's their own fault because unlike men they don't demand what they want and take the make it or break it risks that come with those types of demands.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          This female coach issue is like the wage gap issue. Women now represent something like 51% of the workforce and are heavily represented in the managerial levels of most businesses (everywhere I have worked over the last 10 years I have had a female boss) yet they don't push for better wages for themselves nor do they push for other women to rise to the "C" and directorship levels. It's their own fault because unlike men they don't demand what they want and take the make it or break it risks that come with those types of demands.
                          Oh yeah it's all their fault

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Oh yeah it's all their fault
                            That's what you have to love about our society these days. Personal failures and tragedies are always someone else's fault.

                            The two posts above outline the issue quite well. Can't be thinking about having babies and not asking for promotions/raises if you want to be the head honcho some day. The super women who think they can have it all, generally realize that splitting their focus means that everything suffers. That's just the realities of life, but feel free to make that the messenger's fault also.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              That's what you have to love about our society these days. Personal failures and tragedies are always someone else's fault.

                              The two posts above outline the issue quite well. Can't be thinking about having babies and not asking for promotions/raises if you want to be the head honcho some day. The super women who think they can have it all, generally realize that splitting their focus means that everything suffers. That's just the realities of life, but feel free to make that the messenger's fault also.
                              Another reality of life is that our society does not make it easy for women to have meaningful careers. Crappy and expensive child care, zero paid maternity leave....the list goes on. Societies where there are more expansive support programs - eg. Norway, Finland, etc. countries - have very high levels of female participation at the highest levels.

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