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July 2008 saw the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Andy Burnham, MP, announced the Commission on the Future of Women's Sport, a new, independent body set up to address the crisis in women's sport. Including Dame Kelly Holmes, Ed Smith, Heather Rabbatts and chaired by Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, the Commission shall be made up of senior figures from sport, politics, business, academia and media to tackle the issues outlined within the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation's annual Women in Sport Audit. [Adobe Acrobat Document]
The Women in Sport Audit identifies three key areas of inequality across Leadership, Profile and Investment on which the Commission will focus when it is formally launched this autumn.
Some of the headline findings:
Leadership: only four out of the leading 35 British National Governing Bodies of sport have a female chief executive
Profile: just two per cent of articles and one per cent of images devoted to elite female athletes and women’s sport
Investment: from both the public and private purse, women’s sport receives significantly less funding than men’s
Chair of the Commission, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE
"Having risen through the structures of British sport, and performed at the highest level, I have seen for myself many of the inequalities that women and girls have to put up with in this country. It is therefore a real honour to chair the body that will aim to tackle these inequalities. The Commission is exactly what winning 2012 was all about – providing the kind of inspiration and leadership to get more women and girls playing and competing in sport at every level."
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