Ensure that women coaches maintain contact and remain involved with their sport organization during maternity or other types of leave.
Permit women to ramp down to shorter hours or offer co-coaching opportunities to share coaching roles, and give them the flexibility to tend to family matters.
Provide babysitting services during major competitions and training camps.
Support babies accompanying their coach mothers to practices, competitions, and training camps with appropriate child care.
Recruiting
Encourage young women athletes to consider coaching, support them with mentorship, and be upfront about the issues they may face, in particular child care.
Provide financial incentives to make a coaching career feasible.
Create and promote opportunities for women coaches.
Find better avenues to bring more young women into coaching.
Promote the benefits that high-performance sport offers to the greater community.
End the divisive mentality that pits government against government, be it federal, provincial/territorial, or municipal.
Work Conditions
Offer flexible arrival and departure times.
Offer co-coaching positions.
Offer longer-term contracts to create stable work conditions.
Limit active coaching time to 20 hours a week so that coaches can work on their NCCP certification and handle their administrative responsibilities.
Change the traditional structure and hold mid-day practices.
Guarantee that coaches are qualified, well organized, and paid commensurate with their skill level.