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

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国家一级的女性代表和欧洲国家的女性体育志愿服务

本研究考察了全国女性劳动力参与率、担任体育领导职位的女性以及最近奥运会的女性奖牌获得者对女性参与体育志愿服务的可能性的调节作用。基于社会角色理论和相似性吸引范式，我们预测这三个因素都会导致女性参与体育运动的可能性更高，但年龄组之间存在差异。使用 2017 年欧洲晴雨表 ( n = 18,529）。结果表明，在女性劳动力参与率高且女性在体育组织领导职位中所占比例高的国家，女性志愿参加体育运动的可能性要低得多。在女性奥运奖牌获得者比例较高的国家，女性参与体育志愿服务的可能性要高得多。特定年龄组的分析询问是否应将志愿服务视为年轻女性的人力资本投资和/或老年女性的社会资本获取，表明女性在体育组织领导者和奥运奖牌获得者中的比例很高显着积极与年轻女性志愿参加体育运动的可能性相关。