Women and Sport: The Long Road Up

Coming to the end of this Series and our portion of 'The Long Road Up', we have guests who can share, not only perceptions of the journey thus far, but most importantly the way forward.

A famous USA men's coach is quoted as responding to a question about sport psychology on his team by pointing at his flexed bicep muscle and saying 'this is the only sport psychology I need'.

An earlier program dealt with the inclusion challenges of persons with deafness and those with mobility issues within sport, Today's program will also focus on inclusion and human rights in sport but with other variations of inclusion challenges.

In each of our previous programs, it has repeatedly been emphasized that more resources are necessary in order for women's sport to advance. This truth holds at the individual, family, community, national, and global levels.

Multi national research has shown repeatedly that women's sport receives somewhere between 2 and 10 percent of media's attention span.

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In all the 'Long Road Up' programs, guests have always spoken of the importance of accessibility and participation of ALL girls and women.

Many, indeed all, guests on this Series have braved the step into virtually 'all male' domains. I am not sure there could be any more daunting than 'the garage' at the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway.

Girls and women in sport have been shown to receive lower levels of community and media support and attention compared to their brothers even in communities already disadvantaged.

Research studies in the USA, and globally, have consistently shown that women's sport and women athletes receive around 5% of media coverage of all types.

There is a perception, widely supported by the sport leadership hierarchy, that women have (or are approaching) equitable treatment.