Motherhood and medals: Meet 3 Olympians who have returned to sport since starting a family
Published Once, in the not-too-distant past, becoming a mum meant having to leave dreams of a successful sports career behind. But in Paris 2024, this is far from the truth. Part of the evolving landscape of women’s sport has meant a more welcoming and accepting space for mothers who want to return to their careers […]
Paris 2024: The first gender-equal Olympics
Published Strides forward for women in the Olympics Paris 2024 marks the first-ever gender-equal Olympic Games – the first time there have been 50% female and 50% male athletes competing since the modern Olympics began in 1896. To celebrate this milestone (although we agree this should not have taken 128 years) we want to recognise […]
Paris 2024: Women to watch from Great Britain
Published The sporting event of the year is finally here. As crowds descend on Paris to witness sporting greatness at the 2024 Olympics, the excitement is rising, the stakes are high, and the world is ready to witness history in the making. In this milestone year which sees, for the first time in history, the […]
Women at the Olympics: Fighting for a spot at the Games
Published Paris 2024 marks an historic milestone as first Olympic Games with the same number of female and male competitors. The journey to this point has been long and challenging with a lot of milestones along the way. Some women’s events were only introduced into the Games as recently as 2012. Explore our timeline below […]
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 – […]