Gender Stereotypes In The Sports Industry

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This article was conducted by Lindsey Darvin, Ann Pegararo, and David Berri from the Springer Science & Business Media. After reviewing this article, I have established that this article is very informative and will contribute to my research proposal. This articles purpose was to to observe the occurrence of gender stereotypes in the sport industry by determining whether the gender of a head coach for two women’s basketball leagues, the Women’s National Basketball Association and the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association, impacted individual player performance.

This is an interesting article because statistics are involved and the authors can see the results in numbers.
The authors performed their study by using quantitative data.

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