Status of Women committee  I don't know if you want to jump in, Allison, because I feel like we've spoken a lot already.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry. I wasn't sure who that was directed to. I think as soon as a complaint is filed, it should be taken to a secondary body. Teams and institutions should not be looking at themselves. I think we need outside institutions to do that. Dr. Fowler, I don't know if you want

Status of Women committee  Teresa, do you mind if I jump in before we go to you? In our study.... I would feel uncomfortable speaking beyond our study, because I'm in the faculty of education; I'm not a sports sociologist. A lot of my recommendations are educational. What we saw in our study was discussi

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Thank you for going first again. It gives me a little time to collect my thoughts, so thank you for that. I think we signed on to the letter because we do not see systemic changes. We see an attempt to brand the changes that are needed in sport and hockey with slogan

Status of Women committee  I think we need to recognize that these issues are systemic and work to change the culture rather than having discussions centre on “bad apples”. What has happened thus far is that people have been isolated and deemed not to represent the culture, and so the idea is that we will

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I think it's a lack of education in general. Certainly I am housed in the faculty of education, but one element that came out of our study is that there's a general lack of education for coaches and players for understanding healthy masculinity and the ways in which t

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate that question about commodification, because it was a huge theme in our research. The participants spoke of how when they were 15—all of our participants were over 18—they felt the sport was a job as early as 13 and 14 years of age and how there

Status of Women committee  The consensus among researchers is that ice hockey socializes young boys and men into specific masculine ideals. Hockey masculinity involves aggression, dominance, stoicism and bravado. As players progress in the game to elite levels, these behaviours are expected, reinforced and

Status of Women committee  Greetings. My name is Shannon Moore. I am an assistant professor in the faculty of education at the University of Manitoba. I'll be sharing my time today with one of my co-researchers.