YDF Manual for Gender Awareness

The foundation module — the YDF Manual for Coaches — still constitutes the first introduction to the complex topic of gender awareness, whereas the short module on ‘Gender Awareness’ builds on the different forms of reaction that are possible and elaborates in detail on tips for taking action. YDF is convinced that every coach needs to build on general basic-training skills in order to implement the ‘YDF Manual for Gender Awareness’ successfully and, as such, needs to be familiar with the content of the ‘YDF Manual for Coaches’.

Key aspects of the YDF Manual for Gender Awareness include:

• encouraging understanding and dealing with stereotypes around gender and football, as well as with gender-specific behaviour and gender-specific physical characteristics;
• providing coaches and coordinators with additional ideas on how to promote gender equality in their teams, programmes, leagues and even communities; and
• supplying coaches with methods for designing a complete practice session to raise awareness about or address gender issues that they face with regard to their teams, complemented by a large number of related football exercises.

In line with all the other YDF manuals, this manual is also equipped with case-study boxes and with training and lesson worksheets.

Visit the YDF website to download the YDF Manual for Gender Awareness and read more about its exciting background.