ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the aspects of gendered social processes are associated with sport leadership and the coaching and it highlights some ways in which female athletes' perceptions of sport leadership and coaching are gendered. Gendered social processes often go unnoticed and operate insidiously at a sociocultural level to maintain the status quo of male dominance in leadership conceptions within sport organizations and coaching. The social institution of sport has traditionally been considered a man's domain and one that was created by men, for men and is steeped in overt masculine values and ideologies including aggressiveness, domination, physicality, and power. In addition, men continue to dominate positions of leadership within many sport contexts. Female collegiate athletes whose sport experiences have been dominated not only by the male leaders, but also masculine notions of 'ideal leadership' may come to understand leadership as a gendered role.
