Sports lawyer turned rower, Victoria Evans, will be taking on an awe-inspiring challenge in aid of Women in Sport – and attempting to secure a new world record in the process! Victoria is currently preparing to become the fastest female to solo row across the Atlantic, in...
Now that the Coronavirus crisis has exposed so many deep-rooted inequalities in our society, not least the gender inequality, we need to do all we can to rectify these imbalances. It is simply wrong that currently so many girls and women are missing out on the joy,...
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...
We are pleased to see that more women are active in England compared to 12 months ago, with a total of 14.2 million now doing at least 150 minutes of activity a week. However, we cannot be complacent.
