Research & Insights
Seeing the Invisible, Speaking About the Unspoken: A Position Paper on Homophobia in Sport
In recent years, Canadian sport leaders have pursued a number of national policy initiatives and programs to promote safety, fun, fair play and ethical conduct within the Canadian sport system. In most cases, the experience of sport is overwhelmingly positive for participants — but in rare cases, the sport experience is not safe and welcoming. […]
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Case Studies
Squash BC turns to female ambassadors to get more women onto the court
The Challenge Squash BC was one of the first Canadian organizations to host a Women’s Squash Week trying to encourage more girls and women to try out the sport. They developed a tool kit for the club professionals, who are predominantly men, to help them increase their numbers. But after two years, the week wasn’t […]
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Webinars
Originally Presented: March 26, 2020
Supporting Newcomer Girls and Women Through Sport
Learn about strategies community, provincial, and national service providers in Canada have used to better understand the needs of newcomer girls and women and increase their engagement in healthy living, physical activity and sport programs. Quality engagement in physical activity can further the integration of newcomer women and girls into their communities and positively impact […]
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Webinars
Originally Presented: April 29, 2020
Supporting Newcomer Girls and Women Through Sport (French)
Ce webinaire sera présenté en français. Learn how to better engage newcomer girls and women in your health, wellness, sport, and physical activity programs. Learn how twenty community, provincial, and national organizations ran initiatives to better understand the needs of newcomer women and girls and encourage them to participate more in healthy lifestyle, physical activity, […]
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Publications
The Leading Edge: Good Practices for Creating Gender-Equitable Boards in Sport
Research tells a compelling story of the impact that women have when serving as directors. While most of the research is based on for-profit organizations, it is nonetheless relevant to the non-profit sector, including sport and physical activity. Board gender diversity is a matter of good business as much as it is an issue of […]
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Research & Insights
The Rally Report: Encouraging Action to Improve Sport for Women and Girls
The call to play, move, and compete is a rallying cry that excites us, challenges us, and inspires us to come together. The Rally Report, produced in partnership with Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities and with research completed by IMI International, explores current Canadian trends in sport participation with a specific focus on the target groups of girls ages 6–18. […]
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Webinars
Originally Presented: September 30, 2020
Understanding Same Game: The Self-Guided Gender Equity Toolkit
Join experts on gender equity, leadership, and change management from Canadian Women & Sport and Brock University as we walk you through Same Game. Getting more women and girls involved in sport is an important project – one that requires time, innovation, and effort from sport leaders and organizations. If we want this work to […]
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Tools
What is Gender Equity?
We strongly believe that gender equity builds better sport! It helps support participation in all areas, leading to more compelling offerings, a larger pool of participants, and a stronger organization. As we look to advance gender equity in sport, we first need to understand what exactly that means. While it may seem like a typo, […]
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Tools
What is intersectionality?
Intersectionality is a concept that can help policy makers and sport programmers understand how different types of discrimination – like racism, homophobia, and ableism – combine to prevent some women and girls from participating in sport. Intersectionality is important in advancing gender equity in sport because one solution may not work for ALL women and girls. If […]
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Tools
What is unconscious bias?
Our brains group people based on things we know or assume about them, like age, gender, skin colour, income, ability or education. Our brains use these groupings to make judgements without us even knowing it. This is called unconscious bias. Unconscious bias is not right. It’s not wrong. It just is! But, if we don’t intentionally identify our unconscious bias, […]
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