Since 1989, The Swedish Sports Confederation (SSC) has had the same gender equality goals for the decision-making bodies and election committees. Even so, men continue to be over represented in most national sport federations and clubs. This has led the SSC to adopt a formal regulation specifying that no gender should be represented by less than 40% in the boards of the national sport federations. This formal regulation does however not extend to the sport clubs, although it is still considered a goal to work towards. The aim of this study was to investigate how board members of Swedish wrestling club sexperience working towards the SSC’s gender equality goals. This was done by qualitative interviews with eight board members, investigating their attitudes towards the work regarding gender equality,what strategies the board members described were being, or could be, used and what might affect the work towards the gender equality goals. The results show that all board members have a positive attitude towards gender equality, although there seems to be uncertainty regarding the definition of gender equality as well as the gender equality goals. The results also show that the strategies described by the board members include strategies aimed at directly achieving the gender equality goals, as well as more general strategies aiming for gender equality in the whole club. What mainly seems to affect the conditions for achieving the gender equality goals seems to be the traditionally male-dominated history and culture of the sport, as well as the lack of interest in being a member of the board.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-174382 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Berneke, Linda, Nordin, Mikaela |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen, Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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