Toolkit: Project 51- Challenging gender stereotypes through community sports
Published This is our toolkit inspired by Project 51, a partnership project with Sported funded by Comic Relief. Project 51 aims to help girls in the most deprived areas of the UK fulfil their potential and use sport to overcome the impact of negative gender stereotypes. It follows three different areas of advice: Think: Understanding your audience and how […]
Toolkit: Reframing Sport for Teenage Girls
Published Last updated: November 2024 Our toolkit inspired by Reframing Sport for Teenage Girls brings you resources and key findings from the research which is funded by Sport England. It also brings together important insight about girls from various other sectors and will be updated regularly as new insight becomes available. You can watch a video of the presentation given at the […]
Research Report: Reframing Sport for Teenage Girls: Building Strong Foundations for their Futures
Published Too many women and girls are needlessly missing out on the lifelong benefits and rewards of sport and physical activity and what happens during teenage years is a huge contributor to this issue. At this life-stage, girls become less active and less engaged than teenage boys the same age and by the time they […]
Toolkit: Get out Get Active: Creating positive impact for women who face additional barriers in sport
Published Our toolkit inspired by Get Out Get Active brings you resources, templates and key findings from the programme which is funded by Spirit of 2012. Get Out Get Active (GOGA) is a programme that supports disabled and non‑disabled people to take part in fun and inclusive activities together. It follows three different areas of advice: Think: Understanding your audience of current or […]
Research Report: Where are all the Women? Shining a light on the visibility of women’s sport in the media
Published The media has a significant influence both as a vehicle to transform society’s views on women and gender equality as well as in normalising women’s sport. It has tremendous reach and the power to reinforce positive attitudes in society. Frequent visibility of women’s sport plays out at a more implicit level too, making it […]
Research Report: Puberty & Sport: An Invisible Stage
Published Girls are less active than boys and by age 13 – 15, only 8% of girls meet the Chief Medical Officer’s recommendation that young people aged 5 – 18 should do 60 minutes of physical activity every day. From our Girls Active (2017) research we know that girls’ motivation, confidence and enjoyment of sport […]
Case Study: Re-thinking Intention to Action: Women’s Experiences of Getting Active
Published Women are less active than men, with 27% of women inactive and a further 15% fairly active but doing less than the recommended amount of physical activity. Men and women of lower socio-economic status (L-SES) are less active, with 32% of those in semi/routine occupations (NS SEC 6-8) and 37% of the long-term unemployed […]
Research Report: Beyond 30% – Workplace Culture in Sport Report
Published Currently women are under-represented in senior leadership roles and on Boards in the sector. There is also evidence of discrimination and negative workplace culture. This needs to change in order to create an environment in which both women and men thrive and to nurture the pipeline of talented female leaders for the future. Key […]
Research Report: Menopause, Me and Physical Activity
Published Menopause is a taboo subject in our society and women going through the menopause are missing out on the benefits of being physically active. Women in Sport wanted to find out more. Our innovative research used a mixed-method approach of a national survey (427 women) and focus groups (28 women) to explore active and […]
Research Report: Me, Not My Age or Impairment – Get Out Get Active Thanet
Published Why are women with a health condition or disability missing out on the benefits that sport and physical activity brings as they get older? This report uses qualitative research to better understand women with a disability or life limiting health condition and their relationship with sport and physical activity in later life. The experiences of inactive and active […]