Coaching and Athletic Career Investments: Using Organisational Theories to Explore Women’s Boxing

The following paper explores the extent to which women choose to invest in the sport of boxing, the ways coaches perceive women in boxing, and whether these perceptions influence coaches’ decisions in training female boxers. Human capital theory and statistical discrimination theory are applied to the sport of female boxing to better understand women's participation in the sport, and the gendered expectations coaches have for women in the …