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Analysis of the Management Positions Gender Structure in Sports Organizations in Slovakia

Viera Guzoňová, Kateřina Bočková

Abstract


The aim of the presented paper is to capture the gender aspects of sports culture through the gender structure of Slovakia's national sports organizations members and their management positions. In order to fulfill the aim of the paper, a hierarchical cluster analysis was applied using IBM SPSS Statistics. As a part of this analysis, due to the cardinality of the input variables, the Euclidean distance measurement method and the Ward method were used. The results of the research examining 65 national sports organizations in Slovakia confirmed that the gender in Slovak organized sports is manifested on the one hand by the dominance of men in the membership of sports organizations, with the exception of sports those are explicitly understood as female, but also in the representation on the management and decision-making positions. Furthermore, we managed to find out that there is a relationship between the gender structure of the membership base and the gender structure in management and decision-making positions, which is reciprocal and at the same time asymmetrical.

 

Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2022-03-04-04

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Keywords


Gender Inequalities; Sports Culture; Gender Structure; Management and Decision-Making Positions.

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