{"id":93053,"date":"2024-05-27T13:27:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=93053"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:22","slug":"opinion-shannon-kerwin-discusses-how-to-keep-women-in-sports-leadership-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/05\/opinion-shannon-kerwin-discusses-how-to-keep-women-in-sports-leadership-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Shannon Kerwin discusses how to keep women in sports leadership roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Kerwin, Associate Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, wrote a piece published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/05\/23\/oped-23-kerwin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports Business Journal<\/a><\/em> about the turnover rate of women holding leadership roles in the sports industry.<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn individual cases where women leave, we often blame the woman, saying that it\u2019s her choice to leave \u2014 but this fails to address the system. The problem is: Women enter sport with visions of leadership and change; then they\u2019re faced with a labyrinth of barriers that cause them to leave. Policies around dress, informal networking and pay structures implicitly favor men, which drives women away. To remove maze-like barriers to gender equity and keep women in leadership, top management must actively craft gender-inclusive workplaces.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kerwin wrote the piece in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearethecollective.com\/think-tank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Collective Think Tank<\/a><em>. <\/em>Read the full article on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/05\/23\/oped-23-kerwin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sports Business Journal<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Kerwin, Associate Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, wrote a piece published in Sports Business Journal about the turnover rate of women holding leadership roles in the sports industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,6],"tags":[4753,7488,4210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93053"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93073,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93053\/revisions\/93073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}