I have taught women & gender studies at Oregon State University since 1996, including a course on gender, race & sports. Before this, I taught religious studies for 8 years at liberal arts colleges. I’ve served on OSU’s athletics committee and was the Faculty Athletics Representative at one of the liberal arts colleges.
Getty ImagesIn fact, the phenomenon of placing women at the top of failing organizations is so common that academics have given it a name—the “glass cliff.”
Like other women put on the glass cliff, Gould is accomplished and qualified to lead a Power 5 conference. But until there’s a crisis, women like Gould are usually overlooked for leadership positions in favor of men who are consciously or unconsciously presumed to be more competent as managers and leaders.
Gould takes over a century-old conference that started to fall apart when USC and UCLA decided to leave for the Big Ten for larger pots of media rights money. The domino effect led to Oregon and Washington joining them.
In fact, men may see appointing women as benevolent and even supportive because they are giving women an opportunity to lead. This allows men to claim not to act in sexist ways, even as they ensure reproducing the dynamics of men in power.
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