Abstract

This article describes an initiative to promote gender equity across sport organizations in Western Canada. Twelve sport leaders and six mentors cultivated a Community of Practice (CoP) as a space to co-create solutions to existing problems, and advance gender equity in sport. Each sport leader implemented a project to promote sport participation for women, girls, and in other disadvantaged communities. Our study examines the results of these projects in terms of the impact on their sport organizations and participants, and the types of value that were created. Data were collected from the sport leaders, the program participants, and the sport leaders’ supervisors, and analyzed inductively and deductively. This resulted in three main themes: increased equity; long-term investments and organizational buy-in; and increased confidence, comfort, and connection. The data highlights an increase in equity (i.e. sport opportunities for girls) and the creation of some types of value (i.e. strategic value).

摘要

本文介绍了一项旨在促进加拿大西部体育组织性别平等的举措。12 位体育领袖和 6 位导师建立了实践社区 (CoP)，作为共同创造现有问题解决方案的空间，并促进体育运动中的性别平等。每个体育领袖都实施了一个项目，以促进妇女、女孩和其他弱势社区的体育参与。我们的研究根据对体育组织和参与者的影响以及所创造的价值类型来检验这些项目的结果。从体育领导者、项目参与者和体育领导者的主管那里收集数据，并进行归纳和演绎分析。这导致了三个主题：增加公平；长期投资和组织支持；并增加信心、舒适度，和连接。数据突出了公平性的增加（即女孩的运动机会）和某些类型的价值（即战略价值）的创造。