Sport and Recreation Alliance Interim Chief Executive, Sallie Barker, has presented a strategy to promote gender equality in sport to the EU Sports Minister, Androulla Vassiliou.
Barker, in her capacity as a board member of ENGSO, was one of the rapporteurs of the EU Group of experts on gender equality in sport.
The report sets out actions on a number of areas including:
Sallie Barker believes that the plan could make a real difference to the role of women in sport across the EU.
“With the benefits of sport and recreation, from making friends to improving health, widely documented it becomes ever more crucial that they are activities that are open to everyone.
“Across Europe we have been working hard to make sport and recreation more inclusive and great strides have been taken in recent years. But there is still a lot to do.
“We hope that this proposal can help contribute to bringing true gender equality to sport in Europe and here at the Alliance we will continue to champion sport for all, as we always have.”
The Proposal for Strategic Actions on Gender Equality in Sport 2014 – 2020 will be circulated on the Alliance website as soon as it becomes publicly available.
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