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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
Celebrating 30 years of IWG Women and Sport : IWG Webinar Series
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
Young Pacific Leaders Women's Sports Programme
IWG: Fusi Feaunati and Dr Jeremy Hapeta - An Indigenous Approach to Team Culture: Wahine whakamana
Ako Wāhine: Journey of Learning
Innovative approaches to encouraging women's participation in Golf
Girls Smash Modified Girls Only Cricket Programme
Silver Ferns Captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio on Keeping Balance
Young Pacific Leaders Women’s Sport Programme Announces Selection of 14 Emerging Female Leaders in Sport
Why Aussie women's sport needs to talk about fertility
Venus Williams is stunned 45 per cent of girls are dropping out of sports over body confidence issues
Michele Kang Invests $50 Million to Boost Women’s Sports
5 4 3 2 1 Paris: Eva Morris and Nina Brown
IWG: Lavenia Yalovi & Maria Rarawa - Football for Development Programme Insights on Gender Equality
Latest Insights
A game of inequality: The reality of sporting dreams for young disabled people
Dame Noels: ‘A huge cost on my career and life
Women's sports: What's the opportunity and ROI for brands?
Celebrating the Success of the Young Pacific Leaders Women’s Sports Programme 2025
Meaningful Stakholder Engagement Tool for Sport
Progressing gender equity in senior leadership: a systematic literature review
From Privilege to Threat: Unraveling Psychological Pathways to the Manosphere
Netball Smart - Injury Prevention Resources
UC research examines role of hormones in female athletic performance
How rowing shapes resilient leaders
The rise of women’s football in New Zealand
Pacific Women’s Sports Leadership Programme Expands: On-Island Workshops Coming to Fiji & Tonga
