Women in Administrative roles in College sports

Introduction

By examining the positions of the institutions and organizations are found to lack of women in managerial levels, the relevant decisions in the hands of the men. It is true that there are obstacles to not recognize the capabilities of women on an equal basis as men. Legally there are no barriers. In the Sports Act of the Government (Law 6/1998, December 14), sport is enacted as law in all its manifestations, on equal terms and without discrimination. We are talking about what has been called The Glass Ceiling, a term defining the difficulties encountered by women for positions of liability or professional goals for which they are trained; If our elite athletes, women managers and coaches. The reason that the study focus in sport is that it is a space created by and for men, which are socially accepted "differences" and "inequalities" seem "natural", where the woman has to prove more capacity requirement. Sport becomes the "perfect social stage the male identity: aggression and rivalry under certain rules ", since male hegemony in sport is more resistant to change than any other area of culture. In this situation we can add myths that points and have traditionally slowed participation of women: the masculinization through sports, the sport is harmful health of women, women have no aptitude for the sport, and women have an interest in sport. In Spain, there are also initiatives for the equality in sport for women, joining sports management jobs and training, as consideration from the federations to obtain the status of top athletes in disseminating the results of the competitions to establish themselves as models young girls and this is the case with the new Commission on Women and Sport Working Spanish Olympic Committee, headed by Ms. Marisol Casado, Secretary General of the Spanish Triathlon Federation, President of the European Federation, directive International Federation and member of the COE (Egendorf, pp. 12).

The female employee

The equation between man and woman in the world of work is still distant. However, the number of persons of the female work role increases with every day. However, the proportion of women in high positions is considerably lower than they deserve for their level of training. Women began to work out of economic necessity, women of lower economic status, married or single, working outside the home. The salary of women tends to be lower. In addition, working women who had and still do their chores on a par with their duties. The increased presence of women within the university is a phenomenon that occurs from the decade of 80 in Costa Rica. Then develop your career, in some cases within the same company, and other companies changing for better jobs. These trained women participating in the labor market in different forms, such as the practice of the profession, teaching, and there is an increase of women in leading positions of companies. These women are building new models of behavior to overcome the limitations of labor ...