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 Blog by Lorraine Candy, journalist and author

• Opinion

A digital campaign was created to activate Sport England’s ‘This Girl Can’ campaign around running, to include content that would inspire, inform and engage women aged 14 to 40.

• Research report
• Adult Women
• Teenage Girls

Women in Sport exists to transform the lives of women and girls through sport. We were founded in 1984 and have worked for four decades to demand change.

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.

• Opinion

Get inspired to be active with your mum or daughter for #TimeTogether

Women exercise significantly less than men in Northern Ireland; 45% of women have participated in sport in the previous 12 months, as opposed to 59% of men.

• Case study
• Adult Women
• Coaching and Volunteering

Celebrate the first gender-equal Olympics with Women in Sport

There is a significant gender gap in the participation rates of Higher Education students. Only 48.6% of female students take part in physical activity once a week compared to 64.7% of their male counter parts.

• Case study
• Adult Women
• Coaching and Volunteering
• Teenage Girls

Find out why women and girls are disproportionately dependent on pools and leisure facilities to be active.

• Statements