Sport organisations, politics and gender policies

Within this chapter I shed light on my long research journey dealing with politics and gender policies in sport organisations. Most of my studies are empirical and embedded in feminist and justice-oriented frameworks. Most of them examine Norwegian sport organisations. My main mission has been to analyse gender as a political category, gendered power relationships and gender political strategies characterising the decision-making of sport organisations. The chapter contains an overview of the theoretical framework, methodology and key findings of my research. The research outcomes described are mainly related to the gendering of distribution of organisational resources, formal and informal decision-making practices, leadership images and gender political discourses and strategies. Finally, I argue for future research in sport politics with emphasis on intersectional perspectives and ethnographic studies of decision-making processes, which can provide us with insights into multi-dimensional meanings of gender in the organisational bodies in which they take place.