Women in Sport: What’s missing from the 2024 election manifestos?
Published What do Lib Dem Leader, Ed Davey, paddle boarding with varying degrees of success, Rishi Sunak showing off his football tekkers with even more varying degrees of success, and the Labour party using Keir Starmer’s love of five a side to engage in the meme war have in common? They’re all ways that the […]
Closing the dream gap: Amanda’s 52-mile challenge for Women in Sport
Published Once upon a time I gave up. I gave up wanting to engage in sport because society supported me to do so. Falling out of the sporting loop was easy, actually. Back at school age, which feels like a lifetime ago, the sporting landscape was unrecognisable from how it is today. There was a […]
Breaking Barriers: Supporting disabled teenage girls to be active
Published Led by Access Sport, the Sweaty Betty Foundation, Women in Sport and Nuffield Health, the Breaking Barriers project identifies the barriers that prevent disabled teenage girls from taking part in sport and exercise. The ‘Breaking Barriers’ report builds on our charity’s ‘Reframing Sport for Teenage Girls’ research and explores disabled teenage girls’ attitudes towards sport […]
Finally back in love with sport 30 years later
Published Written by Varsha Patel, Communications and Campaigns Manager at Women in Sport Growing up in the ‘80s as a young brown girl wasn’t easy. I loved sport and was hugely competitive, but due to cultural norms it wasn’t something that me or my south Asian friends were encouraged to try. PE was fine, after […]
Leading women’s health advocate Professor Catherine Calderwood joins Women in Sport Board
Published Women in Sport is proud to announce the appointment of Professor Catherine Calderwood to its Board of Trustees. A prominent figure in public health, the former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland has dedicated her career to improving health outcomes, with a particular focus on disparities which disproportionality affect women and girls. Catherine’s commitment and […]
Women in Sport: What did your father say to you when you were young?
Published Written by Mandie Cran, a pioneering sailor who was once only one of nine women serving in an army corps of 15,000 men. My father was a Naval pilot, sailor and inventor so mealtimes were spent discussing various inventions he was working on. From a very young age I learned about how things worked – […]
Women in Sport influences Department for Educations’ latest schools guidance
Published Last week, the Government published its new guidance for schools in England on PE and school sport. You can read it in full here. The guidance covers two specific areas of school sport provision: ensuring that all children receive two hours a week of PE and equality of access to sport for all pupils. […]
Women in Sport’s response to the McKinney Report into the misogynistic culture of Cricket Scotland
Published Women in Sport response to the McKinney Report into the culture of Cricket Scotland Women in Sport has been working for forty years to give women equal space in sport. Opportunities have been opened up in that time, not least in teamsport, but cultural change has been very slow. We are therefore pleased that […]
Tessa Sanderson CBE joins Women in Sport as Ambassador in its 40th Anniversary Year
Published Women in Sport is thrilled to announce the appointment of Olympic champion Tessa Sanderson CBE as an Ambassador, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of both Tessa’s historic gold medal win and the founding of the charity in 1984. As a trailblazer in the world of athletics, Tessa has long been an inspirational figure, breaking […]
Stronger together: Why women’s sport needs male allies
Published We’re living in a scary time if you’re a woman in sport, or just a woman in general. Online abuse of sportswomen is on the rise, new stories of women being mistreated in their sport are published weekly, and recent studies show that 16% of young men believe feminism has “done more harm than […]