"Bringing women up to equality with men" : paradoxically redressing and reifying gendered recruitment and selection practices in Australian sport workplaces?

In Australia, as in other developed countries, legislative and policy enactment has, in part, enabled the more equitable involvement of women and minorities, especially in workplace contexts where men and normative masculinities dominate. Despite some meaningful change, many Australian sport workplaces continue to be contexts in which femininities and non-normative masculinities are marginalised and devalued. Using Australian sport organisation recruitment and selection policies and official organisation practices as a research domain this paper interrogates how in subtle and paradoxical ways equal employment opportunity legislation can simultaneously redress and reify gendered recruitment and selection inequities.