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Recognizing and Expanding Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Lori Gano-Overway

(e.g.,  Vaccaro & Butryn, 2020 ). Expanding Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion While WPSAJ is structured to provide space for scholars to share research focused on understanding the experiences of women, often with a feminist lens (e.g., developing inclusive strategies, advocating

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Reading Between the Lines: Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Sport-Based Books

Jennifer T. Coletti, Veronica Allan, and Luc J. Martin

inclusion and diversity of perspectives ( Canadian Women and Sport, 2012 ). One reason for these inequities could be the way girls are socialized into sport. For example, girls continue to experience “old-fashioned” attitudes that position sport as an activity that is predominantly for boys ( Canadian Women

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Transition and Change

Lori A. Gano-Overway

of color; narrowing the leadership gender gap in sport; questioning the sex-segregated nature of sport; working toward transgender inclusion; addressing the potential for inequity related to Name, Image, and Likeness; examining the athletics arms race; and transforming sexual harassment and assault

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Engaging Conversation in Women’s Sport and Physical Activity: Traversing Generations

Akilah R. Carter-Francique, Yeomi Choi, DeAnne Davis Brooks, Katherine M. Jamieson, and Judy Liao

universalist framing of “girls” or “women” will interrupt such strong efforts toward an expansive framing ( Gano-Overway, 2021 ; Ratna & Samie, 2017 ). Indeed, in this era of often unactualized calls for “equity, diversity, and inclusion,” we cannot merely count the representative “Others” in the room, nor

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We are Courageous: Speaking Out Boldly and Acting for Change: Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network Conference, 20–22 June, 2023

Milly Blundell, Tori Sprung, and Zoe Knowles

’s football, the inclusion of transwomen in sport, exercise and the menopause, and fuelling the female athlete. Additionally, our poster presentations were proactively framed as a central feature of the conference as we wanted to shine a light on what the conference committee felt is often an ‘overlooked

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“I Don’t Really Know What the Magic Wand Is to Get Yourself in There”: Women’s Sense of Organizational Fit as Coach Developers

Leanne Norman

pathway, in this case as coach developers, for women to generally ‘fit’ into an organization and feel a sense of inclusion. This is rather than having one or two women that may lead to tokenistic roles in professions which are skewed in favor of men ( Simpson, 2000 ). Being ‘tokens’ raises women

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Redressing the Balance: Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network Conference, University of Worcester, United Kingdom, April 19–22, 2021

Gillian Renfree

inspirational ideas being generated, we have the chance to take a big step forward in redressing the balance for women in sport.” The conference completed a significant week for the University of Worcester in the field of women’s sport and inclusion, as the university was officially unveiled as one of the

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BLinG-Health: A Peer-Led Physical Activity Program for Black Adolescent Girls—A Pilot Study

Tara B. Blackshear and Taylor Baucum

the participants. We achieve this through the representation of Black women leading the study, the branded name BLinG-Health, the affirming messages at the end of each workout session, and the inclusion of racism as a root cause. The principal investigator (PI), for example, resides in the same

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Gender Differences in Coaching Behaviors Supportive of Positive Youth Sports Experience

Julie McCleery, Irina Tereschenko, Longxi Li, and Nicholas Copeland

inclusion of other/prefer not to say. Sig. = observed p values reported. * p  < .05; ** p  < .01; *** p  < .001. Measurement Validation and Internal Reliability Univariate skewness and kurtosis were extreme based on the nature of our survey questions. Mardia’s multivariate skew and kurtosis were both

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Exploring a Women-Only Training Program for Coach Developers

Erin Kraft, Diane M. Culver, and Cari Din

.2018.026823 Kalaitzi , S. , Czabanowska , K. , Fowler-Davis , S. , & Brand , H. ( 2017 ). Women leadership barriers in healthcare, academia and business . Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 36 ( 5 ), 457 – 474 . doi:10.1108/EDI-03-2017-0058 10.1108/EDI-03