Women in Sport supports research into disabled teenage girls
Published Women in Sport’s ‘Reframing Sport for Teenage Girls’ research has shown that too many teenage girls are disengaging from physical activity in their teens. The research also highlights that inactivity is contributing to teenage girls experiencing worrying mental health issues, including being less happy, more anxious and increasingly dissatisfied with their appearance. Disabled teenage […]
Sport Strategy: A great leap forward or just a step in the right direction?
Published What is the Government’s new sport strategy? This week, the Government published its updated sport strategy; the first update since 2015. The new strategy sits alongside the updated School Sport and Activity Plan, published in July. The new strategy aims to increase participation and the number of people meeting the UK Chief Medical Officer’s […]
Moving mountains: Meet the ultra-marathon duo who are tackling gender inequality in sport
Published When Robin and Caroline reached out to us with the news they were running an ultra-marathon to raise money for Women in Sport, we were – amongst many things – awestruck. Not only had they pledged to run 50km (non-stop!) amongst some of the hilliest terrain in Europe, but they had also signed up […]
Women’s World Cup 2023: The good, the bad and the stupid
Published Blog by Rachel Williams, Policy and Public Affairs Manager at Women in Sport When was the last time an emoji made you cry? For me, it was about an hour ago and it was the solitary broken heart Mary Earps chose to sum up her feelings on the World Cup Final on […]
New Trustee for Women in Sport
Published Women in Sport has appointed Kuldeep Kaur onto its Board of Trustees. Kuldeep is currently Finance and Operations Director of England and GB Hockey where she has is responsible for finance, people, legal, governance, data and technology alongside leading the momentum behind equality, diversity and inclusion across the sport. Her appointment comes as the […]
The School Sport and Activity Action Plan
The Government has published the updated School Sport and Activity Action Plan for England, but what how does this benefit girls? Published What has been announced? On 19 July the Government published an updated School Sport and Activity Action Plan for England. This gave further detail about its previous announcement in March. The commitment […]
Play Their Way to tackle gender enjoyment gap as Lionesses look to inspire a generation of girls into sport for life
Published As football clubs across the UK get ready for a surge in demand for girls football on the eve of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the Play Their Way campaign is calling on coaches to put child-first coaching at the heart of their approach to tackle the sporting ‘enjoyment gap’ between girls and boys […]
It’s time to stop tolerating inequality
Published Karen Carney’s landmark review of women’s football in England has set out the ongoing gender disparities in football and we applaud the work of Karen and her team for fearlessly shedding light on these inequalities. The report’s aim was to raise minimum standards across the entire game as for too long women and girls have […]
Our response to the Equality in Cricket report
Published “Whilst there has been commendable and significant progress in the women’s game, women continue to be treated as second-class citizens with unequal access, pay and treatment. The England Women’s team are yet to play a Test Match at Lord’s, the home of cricket!” Cindy Butts, chair of the Independent Commission of Equality in Cricket […]
Big Sister project inspires 3000 teenage girls to get active
Published More than 3,000 teenage girls have taken up activities at their local leisure centre by a programme designed to support teenage girls to enjoy sport, exercise and physical activity during puberty. Over the course of 10 months this resulted in 55,000 individual leisure centre visits. Of the girls surveyed 6 in 10 say they […]