In Australia, as in other developed countries, legislative and policy enactment has, in part, enabled the more equitable involvement of women and minorities, especially in workplace contexts where men and normative masculinities dominate. Despite some meaningful change, many Australian sport workplaces continue to be contexts in which femininities and non-normative masculinities are marginalised and devalued. Using Australian sport organisation recruitment and selection policies and official organisation practices as a research domain this paper interrogates how in subtle and paradoxical ways equal employment opportunity legislation can simultaneously redress and reify gendered recruitment and selection inequities. Critically examining how gendered recruitment and selection practices are constructed and reproduced is significant from a social justice and citizenship perspective. In Australia, the activities of national and state sport organisations are characteristically funded from the public purse. At the same time, understanding how gender inequities are constructed and reproduced in Australian national and state sport organisations is worthy of critical inquiry given the significant public profile and international interest they and like organisations in other countries generate. The present research problematises legislative and policy change agendas by encouraging a more critical consideration of how, in sport workplace contexts, meaningful challenges to gender inequitable practices might be imagined and importantly, enacted. It is envisaged that the research findings might have applications in other workplace and industry contexts where men and masculinities have and continue to numerically and culturally dominate. The research shows that in order to be effective, legislative and policy challenges should be supported by change frameworks which strategically and incrementally disrupt and challenge the gendered managerial discourses and taken-for-granted organisation practices constructing and reproducing sport workplace contexts where the ideal sport employee is typically re-masculinised and femininities are marginalised and devalued.