Developing Women Leaders

in Athletics : the « LARA »

Programme

Women’s leadership Seminar

17 january 2011 (Evian/FRA)

Anne ROGERLARA – FRANCE

CRIS University of Lyon 1

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Background

� 2002 Clinics organized by Brittany Athletic

Region

� 2003 Lamour’s Act : quota requirement =>a

certain % of women must stand in leading

authorities

� 2007 Clinics organized by the FFA

� 2008 November : birth of working group on

women commitment in LARA”

First Step : aimed goals

� To Assess : Make a statistical report on the state of women’s involvement

� To Raise Awareness and give confidence : Organization of a one-day competition with women jury only

� To Exchange, to Think and make suggestions : Organization of Clinics around this theme

� To Highlight women : photos exhibition

� To Promote : nominate a woman leader during the annual general assembly of the Region

First Step : aimed goals

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� To Highlight women : photos exhibition

� To Promote : nominate a woman leader during the annual general assembly of the Region

First Step Results

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situation in LARAsituation in LARAsituation in LARAsituation in LARA

- Women Athletes

- Women Coaches

- Women Judges

- Women Leaders

Global view

45% in average => close to gender equality

Percentage of women in Areas Committees

AFFILIATED WOMEN Women competitorsWomen non competitorsMen competitorsMen non competitors

ATHLETESATHLETES

2009 –Affiliated Members by categories

Comparison between Women and Men

by type of affiliation « leadersleadersleadersleaders » ou « leisureleisureleisureleisure »

Entraîneur or Entraîneures? (french feminin

noun for coach)

� 4 out of 30 women coaches do train athletes

who qualify qualified for the French Youth

National Championships

� Women mostly coach youth categories (until 10

y. o.); Men coach after this age

Not too accurate = study should be done more precisely

Women Judges

Women Officials

� Statistics :

29 members in the

LARA Council

including 10

women

Distribution of women leaders in LARA

Day of Women Judges

� During the interregional competition

� Not very successful

� Lack of participation

� Disparaging reflection ofsome misunderstandings

� Too early

� Lack of preparation

November 21st 2009 : Clinics in Lyon

� Opportunity to make an academic contribution

� Working groups

� Interactive show: theatre

Working Hypothesis and possibilities to formalize the development programme

Results

� Success with 70 participants (women and men)

� Raise Awareness and foster discussion

� Hypothesis on the reasons for a lack of Women

with responsibilities

� Concrete suggestions for the next 2 years

Second Step : Goals explained differently

� TO EVALUATE

� TO COMMUNICATE, TO RAISE AWARENESS

� TO HIGLIGHT

� TO GIVE CONFIDENCE, TO SUPPORT

� TO EXCHANGE, TO BRING TOGETHER

� TO MAKE ATTRACTIVE

� TO GIVE TIME

Hypothesis

� Lack of political will to promote women

� Women don’t know the fonctions

� Lack of communication

� No time

� Afraid of what others think about them (lack of

self-confidence)

� No visibility

Example of actions to emphasize

� TO EVALUATE : continue the assessment about women coaches and finish the quantative evaluation (survey)

� TO COMMUNICATE : Write a mission statement for the working group and publish the minutes of the seminar hold on november 21st 2009

� TO HIGHLIGHT women : interviews to be published on the website + tab dedicated to women, photos exhibition…

� TO GIVE TIME : baby-sitting in some clubs or on some competitions, day-nursery, adapted schedules and days of meetings, short meetings and efficient meetings, team work…

� TO ATTRACT : uniforms suiting women jury

� TO GIVE CONFIDENCE, TO SUPPORT : to call up and to support women (mentorship program) who holdmanager or jury positions to get a propertraining/degree in their field of responsibilities, awards (e.g women leader/coach of the year), team work, etc…

� TO INTERRACT, TO BRING TOGETHER, TO CREATE SYNERGIES : organisation of a one-day seminarbetween november 2011 and march 2012 in collaboration with (an)other regions

THANK YOU!THANK YOU!