On Coaching Experiences of Female Judo Coaches with Masculine Presentations

• Main Authors: Kai-Wen Chan, 詹凱雯
• Other Authors: Chia-Yao Lee, Ph. D.
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07997872326761481966

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 社會與區域發展學系碩士班 === 105 === Judo filled with masculinity focusing on fierce, force and agile contradicts prominently against the females in gender stereotype and social cognition that often asked to be sweet, silent, and soft. Judo athletes’ gender ratio in female over male is very few, and even fewer female athletes have become Judo coaches. Those female Judo coaches have achieved to fulfill both the social stereotype to be femininity and the professional appeals in masculinity. The thesis reveals how those female coaches face their contradiction between femininity and masculinity during their lifelong participating in Judo acquiring and Judo coach occupying. The subjects, six female Judo coaches from different schools and institutions were interviewed about the relation between sport profession and their gender. The result shows that the process of training in achieving profession and challenging in physical ability has no different between genders. Female coaches’ masculinity has come from their training and techniques acquiring is doubtless. The priority of female Judo coaches is that their female traits always helping communication in leading teams and overcoming career hurdles. All six female coaches appeal that gender equity curriculum should be blended into traditional Judo teaching and coaching to help gender culture in the sport.