sports betting<\/a> analysts looked at over 200 teams from the UK and US to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNote:\norganizational structures vary quite a bit from one team to another. We looked\nat the highest-ranking group of officials at each team, which in the majority\nof cases (but not all), was a board of directors for British teams and\nexecutive officials for US teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe UK Sports Teams With The Most\nDiverse Leadership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\nOf all the teams that we analyzed in the UK (indeed, in the US too), just one had more women than men in leadership roles<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThis was Kilmarnock FC, a team in soccer\u2019s Scottish Premiership, which has three directors: one male and two female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A further two had 50-50 parity on their boards\n(Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League and Leicester Tigers in rugby\u2019s\nPremiership), meaning that just 3.7% of\nteams have equality at boardroom level.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn terms of which sports had the greatest\ndiversity, cricket was the clear winner<\/strong>\n(though still low), with 13.9% of board\npositions taken by women.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe UK Sports Teams With The\nLeast Diverse Leadership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\nOver\nhalf (58%) of the teams that we looked at had no women on their boards at all<\/strong>, while almost all of them (96%) had more men than women in these\nsenior positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe list of those teams with no female\nrepresentation includes some of the biggest in the UK, including Liverpool, Manchester City, and Leeds\nUnited soccer teams<\/strong>, as well as teams such as Newcastle Falcons and Ospreys\nin rugby union, and Wigan Warriors and Warrington Wolves in rugby league.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn fact, rugby\nleague had the lowest female representation<\/strong> of each of the sports we looked\nat, with women taking just 4.1% of board\npositions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe US Sports Teams With The Most Diverse Leadership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn the US, many teams didn\u2019t list a board of\ndirectors on their website, so we looked at their executive leadership teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And while that usually encompasses a larger\ngroup, there were still no teams that\nhad more women than men in these positions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever, there were four teams with 50-50\nparity in their leadership positions, two of which were based in Pittsburgh\n(the Pirates and the Steelers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Basketball\nwas the sport with the greatest diversity<\/strong>, with just\nshort of a quarter (23.2%) of leadership\nroles taken by women.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe US Sports Teams With The\nLeast Diverse Leadership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\nSimilar to the UK, the vast majority of teams had more men than women in leadership roles\n(96.7%)<\/strong>, although just 17% had no women at the highest level of their\norganization.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSome of these teams include the New England Patriots of the NFL, Miami Heat in the NBA and Boston Bruins in the NHL<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nIce hockey had the lowest representation of the big four sports leagues, with just 18.8% of senior team members being female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Methodology<\/h3>\n\n\n\n We analyzed each team currently competing in\nthe following major leagues in the UK and USA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Premier League (association\nsoccer)<\/li> Scottish Premiership (association\nsoccer)<\/li> Premiership Rugby (rugby union)<\/li> Pro14 (rugby union)<\/li> Super League (rugby league)<\/li> County cricket (cricket)<\/li> National Football League (American\nfootball)<\/li> National Basketball Association\n(basketball)<\/li> Major League Baseball (baseball)<\/li> National Hockey League (ice\nhockey)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nFor each team in each league we took the\nnumber of men and women in leadership roles at the organization, sourced from\nthe teams\u2019 official websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We specifically looked at the highest-ranking\ngroup of officials at each team, which in the majority of cases (but not all),\nwas a board of directors for British teams and executive officials for US\nteams, although the specific organization of the hierarchy on each team\u2019s\nwebsite differed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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STUDY: Which Sports Teams Have The Most Women In Leadership?<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n