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

目前缺乏关于女性教练的研究。人们正在采取积极的步骤来理解和挑战女子运动和教练。然而，女性教育的某些方面仍然缺乏批判性的关注和研究。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男女，女性也表现出同样的能力，但女性在指导男性时仍然面临障碍。其中一些障碍已经在研究中进行了探讨，比如招聘实践，但缺乏关于男性球员是否会抵制女教练的调查。虽然女性正在突破玻璃天花板，但她们仍然面临负面评论，纽约洋基队（New York Yankees）雇佣一名女性打手教练就是对她们的辱骂。曲棍球是一项男女共同参与的运动，近年来，英国女性在精英水平上取得了比男性更大的成功。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空间。该项目将在英格兰东南部的一家冰球俱乐部观察一男一女教练的训练，为期三个月，探索同一组球员是如何与教练互动的，并通过详细的采访来跟进。这项研究将为这个话题带来新的知识，这可能会为曲棍球和其他体育项目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.