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Angelina Quirch

Professor Samantha Gonzalez

ENC 1102: Composition 2

16 February 2023

Annotated Bibliography

KARA, Feyza Meryem, Tekin Colakoğlu, and Esin Esra Erturan Ogut. “CAREER BARRIERS

OF WOMEN MANAGERS IN SPORTS ORGANIZATIONS.” Uluslararası spor

egzersiz ve antrenman bilimi dergisi 2.3 (2016): 82–92. Web.

This article offers research relating to the barriers women face when it comes to

managing in sports organizations. In order to find these barriers, the authors used

the qualitative research approach by interviewing women from different

backgrounds in the sports community. This included women who were executives

and chiefs in the Central Organization of Youth and Sports General Directorate as

well as women who were presidents and on the board of Sports Federations. The

results of this research showed that the main barriers that women faced in these

high positions is that their personal preferences and perceptions were looked over

along with their ability to take on multiple roles. This source appears to be a

peer-reviewed journal which I found using the UCF library resource. After

researching the authors, I found that these authors are reliable because not only

have they performed research relating to similar topics, but they also have PhDs

and work at Fenerbahçe University in the department of Sports Science. Although

I did learn a lot from the article, I did notice some bias within the article when it

came to limiting the information from the male perspective and the positive
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feelings women have in these major positions. This study will definitely be

valuable when it comes to writing my research paper because I will be able to

show how in different fields of women's athletics even in the higher position area

there is inequality that women are being faced with.

Harris, Kristin F., et al. ""Discrimination? Low Pay? Long Hours? I am Still Excited:" Female

Sport Management Students' Perceptions of Barriers toward a Future Career in Sport."

Advancing Women in Leadership, vol. 35, 2015, pp. 12-21. ProQuest,

https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/discrimination-low-pay-long-hours-i-am-sti

ll/docview/1682223519/se-2.

The study aims to examine the underrepresentation of women in sports by

evaluating female undergraduates’ understanding of their future careers within the

women’s sports industry. When performing research, the main focus was finding

the women athlete’s perception when it came to possible job discrimination,

financial concerns, and the enthusiasm behind having a job in the sports industry.

As a result of this research, I found that the participants frequently responded by

saying there was a concern over gender stereotypes with questions if females have

the ability to fit into the sport well. The research also showed discrimination when

it came to women getting a raise in the middle of their careers compared to men.

This underrepresentation causes many female athletes to lose confidence in their

athletic abilities causing them to leave the sports industry even though they are

perfectly capable. The final concern shown in the research was difficult when it

came to marketing and putting in so much extra work to get a low salary in return.

This could be very discouraging for these college female athletes who are getting
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left out of meetings and different activities that they can benefit from. The only

limitation that I noticed in this article was that it should have been expanded to

others since the data was recorded from one university and only gave the point of

view of African American female athletes. This source is a credible source

because not only is it peer-reviewed but it was written by professors with PhDs at

Western Carolina University. I am really excited about using this article to further

my research due to all the information I got about how college athletes feel when

it comes to their perspective of the inequality in college athletics alone in the

social media aspect.

Wallick, Keyleigh N. “Underrepresentation of Women in Sports Leadership: Stereotypes,

Discrimination, and Race.” The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College, 2018,

https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/687/.

In this article the author, Kayleigh N. Wallick talks about how although women's

athletics is increasing, coaching positions recently have rapidly declined when it

comes to coaching for both male and female teams. Within 14 years, over 2,000

coaching spots opened up in women’s athletics and two-thirds of these positions

were filled by men rather than women. Underrepresenting women in athletics

really hinders the athletic success of women and does not allow equality between

women and men. Women are looked upon as weaker and when they do have a

more muscular build a lot of hate comes into play calling them “masculine” and

“manly figure”. I look forward to using this article in my research because it

mainly shows that with males being so represented in the athletic field when it

comes to players and coaching it really does not allow for a good representation
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of women. This causes a lot of hate and them not getting the representation they

should get when they are accomplishing the same goals as men. This article is a

reliable source because not only does it use other references and real-life

experiences, but it was also peer-reviewed. After the author released this research,

there was a significant increase in the number of women participating in women's

sports. So yes, this article could have been biased but it did have a very positive

outcome and brought a lot of awareness.

Agha, Nola, and David Berri. “Gender Differences in the Pay of Professional Basketball

Players.” Gender Differences in the Pay of Professional Basketball Players | Emerald

Insight, 20 Sept. 2021,

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-80043-196-620211004/full/

html#s5.

This article focuses on professional basketball and how there is a pay change

depending on the gender difference. This pay difference is so significant that

women in the WNBA had to seek employment in order to afford everyday life.

Even when the NBA had a much lower level of revenue, NBA players have

always been given a higher percentage of revenue than women in the WNBA.

This causes a lot of insane female athletes to leave and move on to something that

will allow them to get by. There has been no change in this, but this should be

recognized in order for people to be informed on how unfair this is all together.

This article is very beneficial to my research because it will allow me to use data

that shows the very evident distinction between the pay wages of both genders in

the sport of basketball. The authors are also very credible because they both are
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professors of sports economics which shows they really looked into this topic. I

would not say this article is biased, all of the information that was found is

common data that shows the discrimination between both the WNBA and NBA.

Yim, Maria. “Writer’s Statement for ‘‘Where Are the Female Athletes?’: An ...” Stylus,

2019,

https://cah.ucf.edu/writingrhetoric/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2019/10/Stylus_10_

1_Yim_Writers_Statement.pdf.

The author of this article happens to be on the official rowing team here at the

University of Central Florida. In her research, she showed how female athletes

and athletics are not represented compared to male ones. In her data, she

interviewed her teammates asking them questions along the line of acceptance in

their sports. She also analyzed UCF's social media accounts and the attendance at

the different sporting events which showed how much the men’s teams are

favored compared to the women. I really like this article for not only its style of it

but also how it came from this university. I can use similar ways of how she

interviewed athletes and questions when it comes to performing my research. This

article is very useful when it comes to understanding from an actual D1

perspective of discrimination and how it makes the athletes feel about the matter.

Since it is written by a female athlete, it is biased but all of her research and data

she collects helps support her and female athletes as a whole.