Investigating male athletes' perceptions of female coaching: A case study of Field Hockey in the U.K

在教练方面缺乏对妇女的研究。正在采取积极的措施来理解和挑战女子运动和教练。然而，妇女教育的某些部分仍然缺乏重要的关注和研究。特别是，女性指导男性是一个研究不足的领域。虽然男性喜欢能够指导两种性别，女性也表现出同样的能力，但女性仍然面临着指导男性的障碍。其中一些障碍已经在研究中进行了探索，例如招聘实践，但缺乏关于男性球员是否会抵制女性教练的调查。虽然女性正在突破玻璃天花板，但她们仍然面临着负面评价，纽约扬基队（Yankees）聘请了一名女性击球教练。曲棍球是一项男女同场竞技的运动，近年来英国女性在精英水平上取得了比男性对手更多的成功。这为批判性地探索男性对女性教练的行为以及他们如何看待这些行为提供了一个示范性的空间。该项目将观察由一名男性和一名女性教练在英格兰东南部的一家曲棍球俱乐部进行的为期三个月的课程，探索同一组球员如何与教练互动，并通过详细的访谈进行跟踪。这项研究将为这一主题带来新的知识，这可能会为曲棍球和其他运动环境中的女教练创造更多平等的机会，从而进一步突破玻璃天花板。

There is a lack of research surrounding women in coaching. Positive steps are being taken towardsunderstanding and challenging both women's sport and coaching. However, there are parts of women'scoaching that still lack critical attention and research. In particular, women coaching men is an underresearched area. Whilst men enjoy being able to coach both genders, and women are shown to beequally capable, women still face barriers to coaching men. Some of these barriers have been exploredwithin research, such as hiring practices, but there is a lack of investigation around whether male playerswould resist a female coach. Whilst women are breaking through the glass ceiling, they still face negativecomments, with abuse directed towards the hiring of a female hitting coach by the New York Yankees.Field hockey is a co-gender sport, where British females have achieved more success than their malecounterparts in recent years at elite levels. This provides an exemplary space to critically explore malebehaviours towards female coaches and how they perceive them. This project will observe sessions runby a male and a female coach, at a hockey club in the south east of England, over a three month period,exploring how the same group of players interact with the coaches and following this up through detailedinterviews. This research will bring new knowledge to the topic, which could create more equalopportunities for female coaches both in hockey and other sports settings, in turn further breakingthrough the glass ceiling.