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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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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Research & Insights

The Sporting Experiences of BIPOC Women & Girls in Canada

Canadian Women & Sport and the E-Alliance have partnered to seek existing evidence to understand the lived experiences of Canadian women and girls that are from BIPOC communities and to identify the best practices for addressing the barriers they face to sport participation.  While more research is needed on the experience of Black, Indigenous and […]

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Webinars Originally Presented: June 9, 2021

The Sporting Experiences of BIPOC Women & Girls in Canada

BIPOC women and girls experience sport in unique ways. Canadian Women & Sport has partnered with E-Alliance to seek existing evidence to understand the lived experiences of Canadian women and girls from Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities’ barriers to sport participation. We know that COVID-19 had a major impact on sport participation […]

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Webinars Originally Presented: August 26, 2020

We Are Sport: Diversity & Leadership

Canadian Women & Sport and She’s4Sports are teaming up to highlight the experiences and voices of BIPOC leaders in the sport sector. Join Canadian Women & Sport and She’s4Sports for a conversation about how movements for equity in sport are changing what visionary leadership looks like. Our panel of experts will share their thoughts and […]

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Webinars Originally Presented: July 29, 2020

We Are Sport: LGBTQI2S Inclusion

Canadian Women & Sport and She’s4Sports are teaming up to highlight the experiences and voices of BIPOC leaders in the sport sector. Join Canadian Women & Sport and She’s4Sports for a conversation with athletes and leaders from the LGBTQI2S sports community on what inclusion and allyship in sport should look like to ensure that there […]

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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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