In the second of her blogs reflecting on the insight she led for us with Black and Asian women working in sport, Letesia Gibson explores the resilience of the women she spoke to, and what the sector needs to do to support them better… We all love...
Women in Sport’s vision is that no-one is excluded from the joy, fulfilment and life-long benefits of sport. We have campaigned for decades to foster gender equality across all areas of sport, including securing a Sports Governance code that ensures a minimum of 30% of women on...
We recently spoke to individuals from across sport, media and medicine about menopause and perimenopause. We asked them to reflect on their own experiences as well as research and one thing many told us was: we need to change the conversation around menopause. So, we’re aiming to...
By now, it is evident to us all that COVID-19 has rocked women’s sport. However, one area that the debate around COVID-19 and women’s sport has overlooked is how lockdown is impacting women in sports leadership. We know from our work in our Beyond 30 campaign that...
This Father’s Day, Women in Sport and our Daughters and Dads Active and Empowered partners, want to celebrate the amazing bond that physical activity and play can create between father-figures and daughters. We asked families from across the football community to share memories they’ve created through sport. We’ll...
Our 2018 report ‘Where are all the women?’ highlighted that women made up between 4% and 10% of sports media coverage in the UK. We worked with European partners to compare women’s sports coverage and the picture was no better elsewhere. Occasional anomalies arose such as in...
