Women in Sport launch #TimeTogether campaign to get teenage girls and mums active
Published Women in Sport, the leading UK charity that researches sport purely from the perspective of women and girls, has today launched #TimeTogether, a new national campaign which will empower daughters and mums/mother-figures to get active. Working in collaboration with creative & content agency Lucky7, and in partnership with Global – the largest commercial radio […]
An interview with Tove Okunniwa, London Sport CEO
Published Over the past few months, we have been working closely with Letesia Gibson from New Ways consulting to explore the experiences of women of colour working in sport. As part of our research into workplace culture, which is supported by Comic Relief, Letesia carried out a series of in-depth interviews with women in our […]
How women of colour are showing the way with authentic, human leadership
Published In her final blog reflecting on her interviews with women of colour working in sport, Letesia Gibson highlights the value of diverse leadership that these women bring when they are able to show up as their full selves in the workplace. We need more authentic leaders in our workplaces. Because these are leaders that […]
How championing our strong women of colour will create more winners
Published 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 an outsider, the underdog that, against all […]
Why belonging, not just representation, is the key to diverse leadership
Published 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 sports boards. We know, however, that numbers […]
It’s time to change the conversation around menopause
Published 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 do just that. Thanks to funding generated […]
Victoria Evans takes on Atlantic row record attempt in aid of Women in Sport
Published 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 an official Guinness World Record attempt on […]
Women in Sport research highlights urgency to prioritise sport and exercise for women post-lockdown
Published 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, fulfilment and lifelong benefits of sport. Not […]
The women in sport leading us through lockdown
Published 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 women are underrepresented in positions of sports […]
Where have all the women gone?
Published 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 Romania where tennis legend Simona Halep was […]