Susan Horwitz - Womensport & Recreation NSW - CASE STUDY - Gender Equity- Making It Happen – 3 ways

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.”

www.sydneyscoreboard.com