Messner's blog

There are very few women coaches in my community’s youth sports leagues: only 13% in AYSO and 6% in Little League Baseball and Softball.  While I found very little overt sexism or hostility toward women coaches, their stories told of informal (but very powerful) processes that discouraged them:  being informally pushed away from coaching at the entry level; feeling a constant sense of scrutiny from other adults (“is she really qualifiedRead more »

Next month, millions of kids will retrieve their baseball and softball gloves from the bottoms of drawers or from under their beds.