The position of women in the role of a football referee

Title of the work: The position of women in the role of a football referee Aim of the work: Aim of this work is to find out how a woman is being percieved in in the role of a football referee, what their position means and at the same time to find out if there is any rights equality of the women and men football referees . Furtheron, the aim is to assess the position of women referees and men referees in higher level competitions. Methods: To get the aim of this diploma work, an anonymous non-standardized questionary was used. Consequently, a pilot survey was carried out. After this pilot survey, the results of data were worked out and assessed by using graphs. The questionary was sent out to Women First League referees and Karlsbad County referees. Results: The results indicated that it is not necessary to have a sport or pedagogical education for performing a football referee position. A large majority of referees were active football players. Women referees are more resepected at their positions rather by their colleagues men referees than by players and media. And still, there are visible differences in equality between a man and a woman. Key words: women rights, football characterstics, football refere