Gender dynamics on boards of national sport organisations in Australia (2012)

The aim of the present study was to examine how gender works on boards of National Sport Organisations (NSOs) in Australia with the following research questions: (1) What are the gender relations that characterise the composition and operation of sport boards in NSOs in Australia in terms of a ‘gender regimes’ approach, that is, one that draws on categories associated with the gendered organisation of production, power/authority, emotional attachment and symbolic relations?; (2) What are the implications or prospects for gender equality on these boards in terms of the barriers and opportunities created by the specific configurations of gender relations and dynamics?