Gender differences in sports event volunteering: insights from Crew 2002 at the XVII Commonwealth Games Export

@article{citeulike:3451366, abstract = {Mega sports events offer potential as a social and economic policy intervention designed to stimulate personal and social capital. This paper explores this potential in the particular context of gender differences in the motivations and expectations of volunteers at the XVII Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002. It utilizes questionnaire survey responses from 698 volunteers at these games. The paper argues that while the volunteers shared the same characteristics as the wider population in terms of sports participation and volunteering, none the less the expectations of female volunteers were very different than their male counterparts and, more than males, reflected the expectation of using the Games to raise their personal and social capital. This suggests a clear potential for using sports interventions to overcome existing social obstacles to both entry into the labour market but also enhanced community involvement in sports.}, author = {Downward, Paul and Lumsdon, Les and Ralston, Rita}, citeulike-article-id = {3451366}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13606710500348086}, doi = {10.1080/13606710500348086}, journal = {Managing Leisure}, keywords = {volunteering\_sports, volunteers\_gender}, number = {4}, pages = {219--236}, posted-at = {2008-10-26 12:00:48}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {Gender differences in sports event volunteering: insights from Crew 2002 at the XVII Commonwealth Games}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13606710500348086}, volume = {10}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3451366 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3451366 N2 - Mega sports events offer potential as a social and economic policy intervention designed to stimulate personal and social capital. This paper explores this potential in the particular context of gender differences in the motivations and expectations of volunteers at the XVII Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002. It utilizes questionnaire survey responses from 698 volunteers at these games. The paper argues that while the volunteers shared the same characteristics as the wider population in terms of sports participation and volunteering, none the less the expectations of female volunteers were very different than their male counterparts and, more than males, reflected the expectation of using the Games to raise their personal and social capital. This suggests a clear potential for using sports interventions to overcome existing social obstacles to both entry into the labour market but also enhanced community involvement in sports. IS - 4 JF - Managing Leisure EP - 236 TI - Gender differences in sports event volunteering: insights from Crew 2002 at the XVII Commonwealth Games PB - Routledge VL - 10 SP - 219 KW - volunteering_sports KW - volunteers_gender AU - Downward, Paul AU - Lumsdon, Les AU - Ralston, Rita PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13606710500348086 ER -