Where are all the Women?
New research from leading charity, Women in Sport, highlights the continued lack of visibility of women’s sports coverage across five European countries.
Understanding puberty and menstruation and its impact on girls and sport
Published Following the release of Women in Sport’s latest research, Puberty & Sport: An Invisible Stage, we asked sports scientist Georgie Bruinvels to shed some light on the science of menstruation, puberty and physical activity, and why it is important for those who work with girls during the pubescent years to support them to be […]
Empowerment and the Suffragettes movement
Beverley Cook, the Curator of Social & Working History at the Museum of London, speaks to Women in Sport about the Suffragettes movement and its relevance today.
Anoushé Husain: ‘Own the mistakes and own the failures. That is being empowered’
Published Anoushé Husain, a competitive para-climber and Empower Conference panellist, has, by her own admission, experienced a lot of difficulties in her life. She was born missing part of her arm, is a cancer survivor and still lives with many other health conditions including Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a condition that leads to joints dislocating at will. […]
Project 51’s Verity on gender stereotyping
Society is riddled with stereotypes so it’s hardly surprising that stereotypes, like gender roles, are also rooted within sport. Typically, men are viewed as the athletic and physically dominant sex with “strength” being viewed as a masculine trait.
Women in Sport launch Beyond 30% Workplace Culture in Sport report
Survey reveals gender discrimination in sports organisations.
Women in Sport & British Weightlifting Launch #Strongisnotasize Campaign
Women in Sport and British Weight Lifting Campagin
A tribute to Prof. Celia Brackenridge
A tribute to Celia Brackenridge
Women in Sport Story on Gender Pay Gap
Published For the first-time employers now need to report on pay equality. Midnight on Wednesday 4 April was the deadline for companies with 250 employees or more to publish their gender pay gap data. Figures so far indicate that 78% of companies have a pay gap that favours men (comparing median hourly rate). Women in […]
Survey shows large gender gap in attitudes to physical activity for teenagers
The London FA step up to the challenge of making sport more representative