Jill Ellis is a World Cup winner and one of the most decorated coaches, but she can’t get a job coaching men
“There are cultural reasons why. There are environmental reasons why. And it’s a statement obviously about competence,” Snyder said. “Are women competent? Can they do it? It seems like a ridiculous question on the face of it. They’re doctors and lawyers and they’re senators and Congress people. Why couldn’t they coach?”
“The people who were hiring those coaches were, for the most part, exclusively male,” she said. “So they were tapping their own networks to hire coaches.”got the chance to win 11 NCAA women’s basketball championships at the University of Connecticut but no woman has been asked to coach a top-flight men’s team. Four of the last five NCAA women’s soccer champions have been led by men but NYU’s Kim Wyant is the only female coach of a men’s team.
I definitely think there are females that are more than capable of coaching professional soccer in this country.“There’s already a lot of female leadership at NYU and it is the culture. I can thankfully say that no one has, in my face, said ‘There’s no way you should be coaching this team.’ I had sort of the opposite.”
The idea that it’s OK for men to coach women but not the other way around isn’t limited to just college campuses. The WNBA recently opened its new season with men coaching seven of the league’s 12 teams; the NBA has no female head coaches. Men coach seven of the nine teams in the National Women’s Soccer League but no woman manages a team in MLS.
San Antonio guard Patty Mills talks with Spurs assistant coach Becky Hammon during a game against the Atlanta Hawks on April 2.
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