ABSTRACT
Women in Sports Coaching is the first-ever, empirically-based and most comprehensive accumulation of scholarly work with a sole focus on women in sports coaching. The Ecological-Intersectional Model and theoretical framework outlined in Chapter 1 and elaborated on throughout this book will provide sport stakeholders with knowledge to engage in a more sophisticated analysis and thus more adequately address the multiple, complex and intersecting barriers that prevent change. Included in that analysis is an understanding of coaching as a social-relational process, influenced by one's intersectional identities, that inherently is laden with power which can be employed for repressive or empowering (or both) purposes by and/or on the coach.
