Governing equity in sport
Through a focus on gender equity projects, and particularly efforts to advance equity in sports leadership, I contribute a sociological perspective to research on international sports governance: how it is structured, how major players shape each other’s agendas, how sports organizations respond to and resist external pressures, mechanisms of change, etc. In both individual and collaborative projects, my work examines how international sports governance continues to function as a domain of masculine domination, as well as on how to explain variation over time and across different international sports organizations.
Related publications (please contact me if you don’t have access):
Pape, M. (2020). Gender segregation and trajectories of organizational change: The underrepresentation of women in sports leadership. Gender & Society, 34(1), 81-105. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0891243219867914
Pape, M. and Schoch, L. (2023). Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58(6), 996-1013.
Pape, M., Schoch, L., and Carter-Francique, A. (2023). Editorial: Thinking and doing intersectionality in sociology of sport. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living: The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports, 5.
Schoch, L. and Pape. M. (2024). Driving change? Field containment of gender equality committees in international sport governance. Sociology of Sport Journal. Online first.
Schoch, L. and Pape, M. Breaking barriers in international sports leadership: Women's representation and gender equality interventions. In E. Bayle, D. Schwizer, M. Mrkonjic, C. Klenk (Eds.) Sport Management in Europe: Perspectives and Implications for Practice. Edward Elgar Publishing. Forthcoming.