- Coates vows to help women coaches succeed at highest level
- ‘These networks must fade away or be dismantled’
The chief executive of UK Athletics has vowed to dismantle the “jobs for the boys” network and to radically change the culture in the sport so that more women coaches succeed at the highest level.
Jo Coates, who took over at UKA last year, made the pledge after a Leeds Beckett University report suggested there was a “closed shop” in athletics – with decisions made informally by and for men, who also got most of the top positions, leaving women feeling “powerless”.
