Sustaining Male Dominance in Interscholastic Athletics:A Case of Homologous Reproduction...or Not?

摘要

To establish if male hegemony continued to exist inhigh school athletics within the USA and to determine theextent that homologous reproduction (hiring people of thesame gender) might be a contributing factor, the administra-tive structures of 480 high school athletic depattments wereanalyzed. The gender of each school's principal, athleticdirector, and coaches were collected from The NationalDirectory of High School Coaches. Male hegemony wasfound to exist since men dominated both principal (76%)and athletic director (85%) positions, however evidence ofhomologous reproduction was only evident at the coachinglevel. The culture of hegemonic masculinity within athleticsmight be sustained more as a result of sex-role theory orgender-based schematic processing, rather than homologousreproduction.