Women in Sport

Your next team bonding moment... Celebrating the world’s best female athletes in Paris 2024!🌟 We have a couple of ideas to rally your team around this year’s Olympics... Why not... 🏆 Host an Olympic-themed sweepstakes with friends, teammates or colleagues 🎤 Put on an Olympics quiz night to find out who has the best sports knowledge Paris 2024 is the first Games with the same number of female and male competitors, and also marks our 40th year as a charity. By using our sweepstakes kit to fundraise for our charity, you will be helping us strive toward achieving gender equity across all levels of sport and society for women and girls. https://lnkd.in/dHTrC8FJ #Paris2024 #Olympics

Wheelchair tennis at Wimbledon 2024🎾 Tennis player Lucy Shuker is the highest ranked woman in wheelchair tennis in Britain. She, along with 16 other women, will embark on their 2024 Wimbledon journey today in the first round of matches Here are the wheelchair finals dates for your diary✍ ➡ Saturday 13th: Ladies' Wheelchair Singles Final ➡ Saturday 13th: Quad Wheelchair Doubles Final ➡ Sunday 14th: Quad Wheelchair Singles Finals ➡ Sunday 14th: Ladies' Wheelchair Doubles Final Good luck Lucy! 🌠 Watch the best of the action on the BBC📺 #Wimbledon

Congratulations to Andy Murray on an extraordinary career🎉 Your legacy extends beyond your achievements on the court. Thank you for being a relentless advocate for female athletes and for using your platform to champion greater gender equality in sport. Your unwavering support has inspired countless men, boys, women, and girls across the nation. You have set a gold standard for male allies in sport and we hope many will follow in your footsteps.

Welcome, Labour. Congratulations to Kier Starmer and the entire Labour party on a successful election campaign and what must have been an exhausting six weeks. But now is not the time to get comfortable. In your manifesto, you promised to... 👉 Get more children active by protecting time for PE 👉 Establish an Independent Regulator into (*cough* men’s) football 👉 Deliver international men’s AND women’s sporting events with pride These are a great start, but we have a few more things to ask of you, including... 💸 Gender budgeting: equal money spent on girls and boys, women and men in sport ⚖ 50-50 leadership and visibility in sport ❌ Anti-misogyny policies and laws 🏥 Embed sport at the centre of your women’s health strategy A new government has the opportunity to #EndMisogyny, deliver positive change for women and girls and recognise the value of sport to their health - to their lives. Read our asks for Government: https://lnkd.in/eNbujDtm #EndMisogyny

Wimbledon is in full swing this week and all eyes are on world number 1 Iga Swiatek to see if she can continue her winning streak. Who is Iga Swiatek? 🏆 Winner of five Grand Slams in 5 years 🥐 She has won the French Open 4 times 🥇 Gold medal in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games The 21-year-old Polish tennis player broke through in 2020 after winning the French Open. Despite winning junior Wimbledon in 2018, Iga has never made a Wimbledon final as an adult. Will this be her year? We're all watching iga-ly in anticipation... Good luck Iga!🌟

Today is our chance to vote for a government and Parliament that will step up and recognise the value and importance of sport to women and girls. Things to remember... 🆔 You need photo ID to vote ⏲ Polling stations are open between 7am and 10pm 📊 Results will be announced overnight and into the early hours tomorrow Whatever happens, we promise to sit down with members of the next government and Parliament to make the voices of women and girls heard - tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that - it's what we do, no matter who is in power. If you want to know our demands for the next government, you can find out on our website: https://lnkd.in/eNbujDtm #EndMisogyny

Twenty years difference, but not much has changed. Misogyny and sexism are still commonplace in sport and society today, but we’ve had enough. We're asking the next government to #EndMisogyny in sport through policies, criminalising misogyny and setting up an Independent Regulator to tackle abuse in sport. Will you join us? Write to your local election candidates using our template and ask them to show their support to women and girls: https://lnkd.in/emDRYM5Q #EndMisogyny

Is it any wonder girls feel that they don’t belong in sport? 😠 Today a new campaign was released by a lingerie brand using images of female Rugby Sevens players in highly sexualised underwear to 'inspire' teenage girls in sport. Women in Sport is very uncomfortable that we have been mentioned in this campaign without our knowledge. This is not the way we would want our statistics to be applied. We urge that brand to reconsider its approach to this campaign. Talking about "body positivity" suggests girls and women are the problem. They are NOT. The problem is the way that society objectifies and stereotypes girls and drives them away from sport. Our research shows 1.3 million girls who once loved sport drop out as teenagers. And yes, around 6 out of 10 girls do feel judged and scrutinised. So what should we do? 🏃♀️ Give girls single sex opportunities away from the male gaze. 🏋️♀️ Skill them up in sport young like we do our boys. 👕 Let them play in comfortable clothes that don't expose their bodies excessively. ⛹️♀️ Expect them to have sport as part of their lives. We don’t need women to look pretty on the pitch, we need brands and the media to showcase their strength, resilience and skills, and the jeopardy and excitement of their sport. We need to break the confines which trap our girls as they grow up making their worlds smaller. We need to set our girls free. We need society to wake up. To value sport for girls as much as it does for boys. To give our girls self-belief, a sense of belonging alongside building skills like leadership and teamwork, which are pivotal to life. Yet, from the moment they are born girls are surrounded by messages about how they should look and behave – how they should conform by being a "good girl", a "girly girl" and that sport doesn't really matter for them. We are 100% supportive of the players involved; their skills and teamwork on the pitch have been inspiring a generation. They are strong, resilient and powerful. Let's celebrate their skills, tactics and teamwork on the pitch. They have nothing else to prove. We wholeheartedly agree with you Polly Hudson: https://lnkd.in/ev3QarDa

We're asking the next government to #EndMisogyny in sport through policies, criminalising misogyny and setting up an Independent Regulator to tackle abuse in sport. But what does misogyny *actually* mean? Take a look through the photos above, where Women in Sport's Policy and Public Affairs Manager explains what we mean when we say misogyny. Join us in stamping out misogyny for good. Ask your local candidates to help our #EndMisogyny campaign by writing to them ahead of the election using our letter template: https://lnkd.in/emDRYM5Q

Who's ready for two weeks of fantastic tennis, exhilarating matches and ferocious competition? We certainly are. Amongst some of the incredible women competing are... 🥇 World No. 1 Iga Swiatek 👑 British player Katie Boulter who recently won the Nottingham Open 🃏 Wildcards Emma Raducanu and Naomi Osaka Wimbledon 2024 marks 140 years of women competing at the tournament and 17 years of equal prize money between female and male players. We wouldn't be here today without pioneering female players such as Billie Jean King and Serena Williams, as well as male allies such as Andy Murray - Thank you🙏 Good luck, may the best woman win🌠