Female representation at the national level and women sport volunteering in European countries

This study examines the moderating effects of national female labor force participation, women in sport leadership positions, and medalists recent Olympic Games on women's probability to volunteer sport. Based social role theory similarity attraction paradigm, we predict that all three factors result a higher sport, but with differences among age groups. Linear models before after applying coarsened exact matching were estimated using data from 2017 Eurobarometer (n = 18,529). The results show have significantly lower countries high participation share positions organizations. likelihood volunteering is medalists. group-specific analysis asking whether should be considered an investment human capital by younger and/or acquisition older women, reveals presence leaders organizations positively correlated for young Managers nonprofit learn our perceived as rather than attempt acquire women.