著者

関 めぐみ

出版者

日本スポーツとジェンダー学会

雑誌

スポーツとジェンダー研究 (ISSN:13482157)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, pp.19-30, 2014

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The purpose of this study is to show how the growing number of minorities in the organization affects their participation in the decision-making process. In this study, I will focus on all-male college football teams in Japan, specifically examining the role of women who work as joshi manêjâ (girl managers). In Japan, a manêjâ is a student who is in charge of the sports equipment and records of their school sports team. At the present time, the majority of manêjâ are women.The methods of data collection employed include participant observations, interviews and content analysis. The research was based on data collected from two college football teams. The first fieldwork consisted of observing and interviewing members of Team X. This research was conducted between March and December of 2011. The percentage of females was 27%. The second fieldwork was conducted between May and December 2012. The percentage of females was 39.6% for Team Y. Results obtained by comparing Team X to Team Y indicate that the duties and responsibilities of joshi manêjâ increased when the number of joshi manêjâ remained above 30% of the team. In the past, socializing between male and female members of the club was prohibited. However, as the number of joshi manêjâs increased, pressure to socialize with the male players also increased. In fact, pressure to perform menial tasks and to socialize with male players led several joshi manêjâs to quit working for their teams.Therefore, despite the growing number of female within the club, socializing between the female and the male players had in fact strengthened and maintained the dominant power of the male players.