Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• abbas shabani ¹
• Hamid Omidi ²

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Abstract

In spite of the effective presence of women in higher educational levels and general qualifications, the existence of an invisible obstacle called the glass ceiling in the country's sports management is very evident. The purpose of this research is Studying the lack of organizational growth of women in sports management levels. The method of the current research is descriptive-analytical and has an applied purpose. Library method and researcher-made questionnaire were used to collect data. The content validity of the questionnaire was calculated by face experts and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated as 0.88. The statistical population of this research included managers of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, female vice-presidents of sports federations and boards, and female faculty members specializing in physical education. In this research, the research sample was equal to the population and was determined as a whole number. A total of 250 people were studied as a research sample. To analyze the data, the Kolmogorov Smirnov tests, the comparison of the mean of a population and the Friedman test were used. The results of this research showed that, in general, the managerial development of women's sports in the country has confirmed obstacles, and the most important obstacles affecting the advancement of women in the managerial levels of the country's sports, in order of importance, were; Economic barriers, organizational barriers, cultural barriers, political barriers and social barriers.

Keywords

• Growth
• organizational
• women
• sport management levels
• glass ceiling