Monday, February 27, 2012

Gender Project


When having a female and male coach there standpoints can be very opposing and they can take on different roles when it comes to working with the same team. When there’s a male coach that is coaching a female team he may take on a more sensitive role, Considering he is working with teenage girls who maybe more sensitive so in different terms of coaching by using tone, gesture, The male coach is technically fantastic, but sometimes you have to check his pulse and make sure he is still breathing. He is very stable, even keeled, and has a very dry sense of humor. He can hinder a teenage temper tantrum without ever raising his voice and is very sensitive to the girls’ needs. The female coach has a much tougher style that produces results but often produces tears, too. She has a sensitive side, too, but she is definitely considered to be the toughest coach in the gym. When else looking at this people say that the women coaching a male team is unheard of because it just doesn’t happen. If only they understood that as a coach we cannot speak to our boys the same way we do our girls.  They have different needs in order to accomplish the same goal. But gender may play a double role here, because the world of sports in general a male dominated, not only in relation to the people involved (Fasting, K., & Pfister, G. (2000). 

Norman, Leanne. 2010. "Bearing the Burden of Doubt: Female Coaches' Experiences of Gender Relations." Research Quarterly For Exercise & Sport 81, no. 4: 506-517. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed February 27, 2012).
Fasting, K., & Pfister, G. (2000). Female and male coaches in the eyes of female elite soccer players. European Physical Education Review, 6(1), 91.
Norman, L. (2010). Bearing the Burden of Doubt: Female Coaches' Experiences of Gender Relations. Research Quarterly For Exercise & Sport, 81(4), 506-517.