ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses men’s role in naturalising, and in so maintaining, the underrepresentation of women in sport governance in Turkey. It discusses that male and masculine capital are legitimate gender capital and rewarded with positive symbolic capital while female and feminine capital are either excluded or aligned with devalued jobs. It is argued that gender capital operates as symbolic violence in misrecognition of women’s underrepresentation in sport governance as natural and universal, and so women’s underrepresentation in sport governance likely remains unaddressed as a matter of inequality.
