Advancing Women
Moving Gender Diversity From Conversation to Action
At the start of 2019, the discrepancy in funding and coverage, and the impact of this on sports participation is once again on the agenda for sports associations nationwide. With many sports suffering from decades of underfunding, the women’s game attitudes are now changing to try to draw in not only young and ambitious players, but also supporters and fans. Read More
“You can’t be what you can’t see”. My job is to help bosses become aware, stop talking and start doing, to create a gender balanced and inclusive workplace. Celebrating Women is just one way of doing that. Read More
UFC is a surprising champion for gender equality. A great article by Advancing Women guest blogger Marcus Memmolo who challenges us to think differently about a sport that often gets a bad rap. Read More
I have taken inspiration from four terrific women to create an event that highlights the importance of celebrating and honouring women in Australia. Read More
Sport is an integral component of the society that is Australia and has featured consistently throughout my entire life, whether as a little person watching from the sidelines when my parents played or as a young person and adult being involved in various team and individual sports. As I became older, like many people, I… Read More
Despite the many social and organisational benefits of advancing women in leadership within the sporting sector, Australian sporting clubs and organisations have been slow to catch on. Why? Read More
There is just too much talk and too little action when it comes to gender equality in sport. Sports leaders must develop a new game plan for women. Read More
There is undeniable evidence that advancing more women in sports leadership means they will earn more and will spend more in sport. This is a win, win, win situation for sport, the economy and of course for women. Read More
Picture this. Your favourite sporting team runs onto the field/court. In the case of AFL, this would see my beloved West Coast Eagles running on. 18 players who run on and take their designated positions. Their role in the team is set. But what happens if we send 18 goal kickers out and no defenders or midfield? Crazy huh? Read More
You Can’t Be What You Can’t See. Right? I’m in absolute admiration mode for these two women who have embarked upon an ambitious and very worthwhile campaign to correctly rewrite history and rightly enshrine women in our history books. Read More
