Exploring Gender, Work, and Family: Understanding Sport Management Alumni Not Working in Sport
Jaime R. DeLuca & Jessica R. Braunstein-Minkove
What the paper says
Institutions of higher education sponsor sport management and related programs to prepare students for professional careers in the expansive sport industry. However, the field is both complex and complicated, often characterized by a variety of inequities and long-standing structures that prove difficult to transcend. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to delve further into some of these issues through an investigation of one sport management program’s alumni who are no longer working in sport. Through this longitudinal study, findings demonstrate program alumni are relatively evenly split between those in the industry and those not. The top reasons for not and/or no longer working in the sports industry include lack of jobs/high competition for jobs, better opportunity outside of the industry, low pay, and family/personal reasons.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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