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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Yup. I wonder why that is. My guy tells me that women are generally less interested in sports than men, but I look to all the female jocks and wonder why they never coached their kids hockey team. I mean, we know of soccer moms and hockey moms, but they're never coaches for some reason. So either there's sexism at the development levels in giving coaching jobs, or there's some other factor, such as the double shift, maternal duties, or other barriers
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Back in the 80s when my kid was 8 or 9 he had a female coach one season. She used to bring her slightly older son to the practises to help and also it encouraged the players to try to keep up with him. This went on for a few weeks until at one game the fathers were passing around a petition to fire the coach. I wouldn't sign it because she was doing fine and where were the fathers at the beginning of the season when they could have volunteered. Years later in a big co-incidence her boy and my boy played on a Junior A team together in another province.