To measure progress a lot of statistics have been gathered over the years. Here are some interesting statistics on women in coaching...

Olympic Games Coaching Analysis - summary
Olympic Games Coaching Analysis - by sport
NCCP Gender Comparison Stats

FAQs...

Just the FAQs …

Click below for the answers to several of our frequently asked questions.

1. Do women really want to be coaches and spend all that time away from home? Answer...
2. Why should women who coach be treated differently from men who coach? Answer...
3. Why should we be trying to increase the number of women coaches? Answer...
4. Why is it so important to increase the number of women coaching with national teams? Answer...
5. Does it really matter if the coach is a man or a woman? Shouldn't we just hire the best coach for the job? Answer...
6. Where is it written that female athletes must be coached by female coaches? Answer...
7. What's the point of women-only programs? Don't they just put women in positions for which they are not really ready? Answer...
8. Women entering the coaching ranks will eventually work their way up. Why bother with special catch-up programs when change will happen naturally and in its own time? Answer...
9. Why don't more female high performance athletes become coaches once they stop competing? Answer...
10. We don't have enough programs for coaches as it is. Why should valuable resources be directed at such a small part of the coaching population? Answer...
11. Aren't special programs for women coaches really just discrimination reversed? Answer...
12. I don't want to be part of a special program; I want to be treated the same as a man and make it in the same way. Answer...