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Women coaching sportsmen
The last, great sporting gender divide? This summer there were several high-profile appointments of women coaches at the highest level of sport. In May 2014, Helen Costa was appointed manager of French...
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UK’s sport in professional revolution
Where men are professional, there should be the opportunity for women to be too. There are now more opportunities for women to make a living in the sport they love. Last week it was announced that the...
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Women’s football match re-enacted
Inter-factory matches in First World War raised money for Coventry’s wounded soldiers. A Heritage Lottery Fund-backed project has recreated a football game that first took place in 1917 between female...
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The Sun offers Page 3 Girl date as prize
A step too far. In a self-parodic move The Sun last week advertised a date with ‘Rosie’ or ‘Kelly’ as a reward for the lucky winner of its Fantasy Football Dream Team competition: ‘Travel not included....
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Let’s celebrate Women’s Sport Week 2015
Women in Sport launches its first week-long event promoting women’s sport. For some time now I’ve been just a small part of a committed, and ever-growing, group trying to raise awareness of women’s...
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Women’s Sports Week and World Cup
Wall to wall media coverage, a book and a Panini sticker album – what more do you want from a World Cup? As part of Women’s Sport Week (#WSW2015), Women’s Views on News will be profiling some of the...
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Ashes Fever set to hit cricketing Britain
England’s women aim to retain the trophy – again. Hot on the heels of the football World Cup comes the biggest prize in cricket – the Ashes. The Women’s Ashes begin on 21 July at Taunton and end at...
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Coming in August – the Netball World Cup
But this is worlds away from the school playground. August will see 10 days of the highest level sport at the Netball World Cup. Forget what you think you know about netball, because the odds are the...
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Can Europe make it three in a row?
Europe’s and America’s best golfers battle it out again in September. One of the great events still to come this year is golf’s ultimate team tournament, the Solheim Cup. The Solheim Cup is a biennial...
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Sport cannot ignore human rights
Not again. And again. And again. By Nils Muižnieks, Michel Forst and Dunja Mijatović. On 12 June the first European Games begin in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. More than 6,000 athletes from 50...
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Women’s football gaining ground?
Times may be dark for FIFA, but the women’s game is stronger than ever. Amid all the recent FIFA furore, the biggest ever Women’s World Cup has been getting under way. Hosted by Canada, this seventh...
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That was Women’s Sport Week, that was
Contemplating #WSW2015 and how far it registered on the public consciousness. I spent the week of 1-7 June – Women’s Sport Week – in a sporting frenzy. My Twitter feed was humming and email aglow. I...
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Women’s football: a more honest game?
Football today is a high profile, corporate affair driven by vast sums of money. But the game is in trouble. Premier League footballers command astronomical fees, fans are sidelined as ticket prices...
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Cricket: new Women’s Super League announced
And prize money for the first time ever in English women’s cricket. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced it is to create a new Women’s Super League. The League, comprising six teams,...
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Where to see the Lionesses now they are back home
There are some great games see over the next month featuring England’s top stars. The Women’s Super League (WSL) resumes this weekend, and hopes to benefit from the enthusiasm engendered by England’s...
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Women’s football joins FIFA computer game
But it’s not time to get the celebratory flags out just yet. Women’s football has had a big increase in popularity in recent months. This is in part thanks to the success of England’s women’s team in...
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Sport: gender-testing guidelines suspended
Gender testing ‘goes to the very heart of the perception of women who play sport’. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has had its guidelines on hyperandrogenism suspended for...
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Netball World Cup bronze for England
But can a new coach build a squad to challenge – beat – Australia? England’s Roses beat Jamaica for the second time in the tournament to finish a fantastic third in the 2015 Netball World Cup. England...
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What if we level the playing fields
We want to persuade the media to pledge to present sport to girls in a responsible way. What if…. …instead of growing up only seeing images of models and make-up on the pages of magazines, young girls...
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F1 test driver Susie Wolff retires at 32
Trailblazing driver admits her Formula 1 racing career “isn’t going to happen”. In an interview with BBC Breakfast, Susie Wolff said, “It was a decision I made at the end of the summer. There was very...
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Picture a motorsport engineer
An interview with Katie Lawrence. By Natasha Turner. I’m sitting in a café at McLaren headquarters with Katie Lawrence. Surrounding us are some of the fastest cars in the world. They are displayed on...
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Sexism and bullying in cycling?
Sexism in sport has reared its ugly head again. With less than 100 days to go until the Olympics in Brazil’s capital, Rio de Janero, British Cycling has been forced to deny that it is in crisis...
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Wimbledon woes for the women
Why is tennis still a man’s game? Despite it being one of the better known sports for women, tennis is consistently bogged down with sexism and discrimination issues. Still. Or ‘again this year too’....
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Women’s Sport Week 2016
Women’s Sport Week runs from 3 – 9 October 2016. Women’s Sport Week is an opportunity for everybody involved with playing, delivering, leading or working in sport to celebrate, raise awareness and...
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Letter: in defence of professional women’s sports
How long are we going to keep quiet while we witness this? I refuse to. This is the English version of an open letter sent to the leadership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), extended to...
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