Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., School of Kinesiology lecturer and director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, and Laura Burton (UConn), Tucker Center Affiliated Scholar, have co-authored an article appearing in The Conversation.

In the article “The war on women coaches,” LaVoi and Burton write about the double-standard that holds female and male coaches to different standards of coaching behavior. 

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