A meta-analysis of women professional evolution in sports leadership

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The underrepresentation of women in sports leadership positions raises significant concerns regarding equality and diversity. This study aims to explore the relationship between sports leadership and gender. The objective is to understand and highlight the individual, organizational, and societal factors hindering women’s progress in sports leadership roles. This paper identified 32 publications out of 157 selected references through the systematic literature review (SLR) method. The results of this meta-analysis reveal that despite their active involvement in sports, women remain inadequately represented in leadership roles. In fact, women face several challenges, including sexism, underestimation of their skills, and associating them with family constraints. Consequently, it becomes imperative to take concrete measures to promote gender equality and an equal professional development environment for both genders. Several areas for future studies could deepen the understanding of sports leadership and gender, including cross-linguistic comparisons, intersectional perspectives, longitudinal analyses, a study of male dynamics, technological impact, the evaluation of organizational policies and practices, as well as cultural comparisons.

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    • Figure 1. Process of selection and exclusion of articles in the databases
    • Figure 2. Type of publications
    • Figure 3. Scientific databases or search engines
    • Figure 4. Number of publications per year
    • Figure 5. Word cloud generated from the French corpus
    • Figure 6. Word cloud obtained from the English corpus
    • Figure 7. References according to research methodology and language
    • Table 1. Number of documents in the corpus
    • Table 2. Approaches and data analysis in English references
    • Table 3. Approaches and data analysis in Francophone research
    • Data curation
      Chaymaa Lotfy
    • Investigation
      Chaymaa Lotfy
    • Methodology
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    • Resources
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    • Software
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    • Writing – original draft
      Chaymaa Lotfy, Annie Cornet
    • Writing – review & editing
      Chaymaa Lotfy, Yasmina Bennis Bennani, Annie Cornet
    • Conceptualization
      Yasmina Bennis Bennani, Annie Cornet
    • Project administration
      Yasmina Bennis Bennani, Annie Cornet
    • Supervision
      Yasmina Bennis Bennani, Annie Cornet
    • Validation
      Yasmina Bennis Bennani, Annie Cornet
    • Visualization
      Yasmina Bennis Bennani, Annie Cornet
    • Formal Analysis
      Annie Cornet
    • Funding acquisition
      Annie Cornet