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GENDER AND LEADERSHIP SELECTION PROCESSES IN NORWEGIAN SPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

This article examines some of the gendered processes surrounding the selection of leaders in Norwegian sporting organizations. It was found that the most desirable candidates possessed professional-managerial skills that could open corporate doors. This corporate image reflects the valorization of masculine norms in contemporary organizations. The normalization of this androcentric culture rendered the organizations as gender-neutral entities, thus masking fundamental links between masculinity, power and leadership. The study illustrates the formidable distance between rhetoric and reality, as well as between legislation and realization.