Gender Balance in Sport Report
Posted: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:19
Currently there are few National Olympic or Commonwealth organising committees or sports federations where more than 30 per cent of board members are female, and the average is closer to, or below, 20 per cent. Women on Boards was founded in Australia following the successful Olympic Games held in 2000. The impetus was the significant number of medals won by women at the Games and the paucity of women on national sports boards. This report delivers a baseline dataset on the participation of women on sports governing bodies in the lead up to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. It shows that women remain under-represented on the majority of sporting boards at international and national levels.
More information: http://www.womenonboards.co.uk/news/gender-balance-in-sport-report/index.htm