'Should a woman have my job?' - Spurs boss Vilahamn
Robert Vilahamn is one of six men to currently manage a Women's Super League club, but the Tottenham head coach wants to see more females in his position.
There is a 50-50 gender split among the 12 WSL managers following the recent appointments of Renee Slegers at Arsenal and Natalia Arroyo at Aston Villa, who both replaced men.
But the Spurs boss, who is in his second season at the north London club, says he sees it as his responsibility to create more opportunities for women.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Women's Football Weekly podcast, he said: "You can ask me 'why are you working in the women's game, shouldn't you give the chance for a women's coach to be head coach?'"
"I hope more and more [women] become head coaches. I hope there becomes women coaches in the men's game more.
"But my way of doing it is to make sure I'm a good ally for gender equity and to have different age groups of coaches around me - and especially female coaches.
"You can say whatever you want to me but I choose a female over a male if I can do it because I feel like somebody needs to do that, because it [happens] so much the opposite way."
Earlier this month he brought in former Mexico international Bri Campos to his coaching staff, which is led by senior assistant head coach Vicky Jepson, and Vilahamn was full of praise for the duo.
"Their knowledge is amazing and you don't find that if you don't dare to try to do that," he said, adding that he was also aware of the need to have female insight while working in women's football.
"I'm working with female athletes, and if I think I know about females I [am] wrong, I need that expertise around me to be a good leader as well.
"The best staff groups are those that have different ages and different genders. You get [a] much better environment."
The 42-year-old Swede says he knows the importance of being a good ally to women because of his family.
"I have twins, one son and one daughter," he says. "I just feel like my daughter deserves the same chance in life as my son."
But he also knows the position he has at Spurs has given him a great opportunity to bring about change.
"I actually have a big role in a big club on a big stage so I can actually use my role to make sure I make a difference.
"Purpose in life is something you want to have - and I have it, and I can actually do something about it. It's quite cool.
"When you work in the women's game, you kind of realise even more what gender equity is and how it is to be a woman in the world, because you need to fight so much to get the right stuff, to get what you deserve [and] sometimes you actually get the opposite."
