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Asia Pacific World Sport
&
Women Conference
27th & 28th October 2014
Gender Equity in Sport:
Making it Happen 3 ways
Susan Horwitz
President Womensport & Recreation NSW
Who we are
Womensport and Recreation NSW (Womensport NSW)
is the only organisation of its type in NSW.
We are a state-wide advocacy body passionately
committed to enhance sporting opportunities for all
women and girls.
Equity, Access & Participation are at the core of every
initiative we undertake.
• If you can’t see it, you can’t be it! Putting female sporting champions and schoolgirls together creates role models that can be seen, heard and emulated –a powerful experience.
• Does your local Council only treat sport and recreation as an asset management issue, or does your Council promote sport and recreation for an inclusive local community?
• Does your favourite sporting organisation ensure talented females are given the opportunity to step up to senior executive positions.
• If you can’t see it, you can’t be it! Putting female sporting champions and schoolgirls together creates role models that can be seen, heard and emulated –a powerful experience.
• Does your local Council only treat sport and recreation as an asset management issue or does your Council promote sport and recreation for an inclusive local community?
• Does your favourite sporting organisation ensure talented females are given the opportunity to step up to senior executive positions.
• If you can’t see it, you can’t be it! Putting female sporting champions and schoolgirls together creates role models that can be seen, heard and emulated – a powerful experience.
• Does your local Council only treat sport and recreation as an asset management issue, or does your local Council promote sport and recreation for an inclusive local community?
• Does your favourite sporting organisation ensure talented females are given the opportunity to step up to senior executive positions.
Local Government Women In Sport Equity Program
Promote and support
participation of women and girls
Check programs and policies
allocation of sports grounds –
Girls Get Active Events
Partner with sports clubs to build
capacity
Improve sports amenities for
gender equity
Active role in promoting health of
community through Community
Strategic Plan
Making a Difference
Ballina Blacktown Cootamundra
Great Lakes Leichhardt Marrickville
Nambucca Parramatta Penrith
Pittwater Rockdale Shoalhaven
Warringah
• If you can’t see it, you can’t be it! Putting female
sporting champions and schoolgirls together creates
role models that can be seen, heard and emulated –
a powerful experience.
• Does your local Council only treat sport &
recreations as an asset management issue or does
your council promote sport & recreation for an
inclusive community?
• Does your favourite sporting organisation ensure
talented females are given the opportunity to step up
to senior executive positions?
• “This program is a big professional opportunity and a
really significant course. It is something serious to make
as a priority.” Kath Tetley, General Manager
Commercial & Communications, Netball NSW. (2012
Program)
• "The CEW Leaders Program has quickly become an
integral part of our Diversity and Inclusion strategy. Not
only does it provide our participants with valuable
individual learning and an extended professional
network, it has also become a further symbol of and
vehicle for our ongoing organisational change." Barry
Bloch, Worley Parsons Group Managing Director –
People
A recent Womensport NSW key recommendation
to the Minister of Sport and the Minister for Women
is:
“That all state sporting organisations set Key
Performance Indicators for increasing women’s
representation at senior executive levels and on
Boards.”