Managing gender
Subtitle: affirmative action and organizational power in Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand sport
By: Jim McKay.
Series: SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Sports for women -- Social aspects -- Australia; Sports for women -- Social aspects -- Canada; Sports for women -- Social aspects -- New Zealand; Sex discrimination in sports -- Australia; Sex discrimination in sports -- Canada; Sex discrimination in sports -- New Zealand; Affirmative action programs -- Australia; Affirmative action programs -- Canada; Affirmative education programs -- New Zealand
Description: This analysis of gender, sexuality, and power in sport evaluates how affirmative action programs for women have been implemented in sporting organizations in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

Based on in-depth interviews with over one hundred men and women managers and supported by colorful examples from the popular press, Managing Gender shows that affirmative action initiatives usually have been marginalized, trivialized, or incorporated into the corporate-managerial and masculinist cultures that pervade sporting organizations, the media, and the state.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-207) and indexes.