Increasing the value, visibility and influence of Women and girls in sport and active recreation
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Gender Equity
Welcome to the Women In Sport Aotearoa Insight Hub. Explore a collection of insights that show how individuals and organisations across Aotearoa New Zealand and Oceania are positively impacting the landscape for women and girls in play, active recreation and sport.
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Women in Sport Aotearoa Picks
2022 IWG: David Cabello - A Gender Policy for Increasing Women’s Representation in Badminton
2022 IWG: Phil Clark - Using Research and Advocacy to Improve the Gender Balance of Sports Coverage
2022 IWG: Nicole Terril - Bruce Pulman Park – Collaborating, Connecting, Enabling Our Wāhine in Sport
2022 IWG: Kirsten Spencer - Gender and variation of experience, background and aspiration on leadership
2022 IWG: Kirsten Spencer - Sport as a social development tool
2022 IWG: Erin Hatton - Driving transformational change
IWG: Mihi Nemani - Weaving Culture and Fitness Practices: The Role of Physical Activity in the lives of Young Māori and Pasifika Wahine
IWG: Moonira Ramathula Moonira - Visibility and Voice
IWG: Adele Pavlidis - What has sex and gender got to do with it? Exploring tensions and assumptions for elite strength and conditioning coaches
IWG: Moonira Ramathula - Growing Professional Women's Rugby in Africa
IWG: Mel Johnston - Women in Community Sport Club Leadership
IWG: Troy Han - Celebrating Women In Sport
IWG: Sanna Erdogan - Resilient Pioneers: Top Level Women Coaches in Martial Arts
IWG: Emma Evans - Advancing leadership across the Pacific
IWG: Jess Davidson - Yeah! Girls Activators – building a new workforce for youth female cricket
2022 IWG Lightening Talk: Araba Chintoh -Transgender Players and Girls & Women’s Sport: How Your Sport Can Make the Most Informed Decision.
IWG: Gen Dohrmann - Reshaping the images we see of women's sport in Australia
IWG: Claire Badenhorst - Iron regulation throughout the lifespan - An active female perspective
IWG: Fran McEwen - Whanake o te Kōpara: co-designing a leadership programme for young women
IWG: Amy Marfell - The Power of Digital Media for Everyday Activism and Advocacy
IWG Muditambi Ravele - Visibility and Voice: Baby Steps Towards Changing Perceptions of Women Sport
IWG: Michelle DeHighden - Developing our NextGEN Female Coaches
2022 IWG: Emily Davidson - She Loves Golf Presentation
IWG: Christine Young - Indigeneity enriches High Performance
IWG: Helene Wilson - What happens when you create space in the system - Women in HP Sport Pilot
IWG: Lavenia Yalovi & Maria Rarawa - Football for Development Programme Insights on Gender Equality
IWG: Daenin Roth - Grassroots Role Models Inspiring Change
IWG: Dr Riki Tesler: Social capital and health among participants in the cachibol league in Israel
IWG: Etsuko Ogasawara - New Way of Thinking to Promote Physical Activity for Girls
IWG: Sarai Bareman - Challenges facing professionalism in women's sport
IWG: Christine Young - Women in Taekwondo - Over 40 is not Over the Hill
IWG: Alexia Lopes - "No tits in the pits!”: An exploratory research of female leaders in motorsports
IWG: Angelica Saenz - LTB+ Women's Movement is unstoppable, are you moving with us?
IWG: Vaidehi Vaidya, Women in Sport India - Mentoring the future leaders of women's sports
IWG: Tania Cassidy & Jessica Fuller - Building capability in NZ female football coaches: The journey of a mentor and mentee.
IWG: Emily Dealy - Using sport as a vehicle for positive social change: A framework advancing social outputs, outcomes and impact of the ‘Game on for Women’ strategy
IWG: Florence Gitau - Using the platform of football to promote Employment and Entrepreneurship opportunities for slum girls and young women in male dominated Sports industry- Critical lessons from ‘Breaking the Barriers’ (BTB) project in Kenya
IWG: Sari Tuunainen - Coach Like a Woman in Combat Sports
IWG: Hanna Huumonen - Bye bye, binary! Introducing intersectionality in sports instructing
IWG: Akane Mikura - JBA progress of developing women coach
IWG: Sally Rae - Level playing fields do not exist
IWG Jordan Matthews & Lucy Piggott - Is gender on the international agenda?
IWG: Ainhoa Azurmendi - Research on the situation of Basque elite athletes from a gender perspective
IWG Swarali Patil - Money matters: Understanding elite women athletes’ experiences of financial wellbeing
IWG: Dr Lana McCarthy There’s No One Way To Coach: Practitioner’ Perspectives On Team Leadership And Culture
IWG: Fusi Feaunati and Dr Jeremy Hapeta - An Indigenous Approach to Team Culture: Wahine whakamana
IWG: Helen Parker - Transgender competitors in women’s sport - Change for the better?
IWG: Felicity Lord - The winning ways of women: Analysing strategy in field hockey using game styles
IWG: Belinda Zaparinuk - Breast Health: Removing Panic During a Pandemic
IWG: Kathleen Young - A clinical breast examination training program
IWG: Diana Weynand - LIPSTICK Football: Mastering 8 Life Principles While Learning the Game of Football
Popular Insights
IWG: Fusi Feaunati and Dr Jeremy Hapeta - An Indigenous Approach to Team Culture: Wahine whakamana
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Silver Ferns Captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio on Keeping Balance
Venus Williams is stunned 45 per cent of girls are dropping out of sports over body confidence issues
IWG: Lavenia Yalovi & Maria Rarawa - Football for Development Programme Insights on Gender Equality
WOTK Alumnae Kylie Heihei - My Leadership Journey
Managing the Physical Load of Female Athletes
Whanake o te Kōpara case study - Daneka Geaney-Jones
Netball Volunteer Programme
Netball Resources for Clubs and School Administrators
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World Rugby’s smaller ball proposal ignites debate on gender equality in sports
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