Raising the profile of women’s participation in sport across all sectors of society will be the focus of a symposium at Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus tomorrow (November 28).
Hosted by the Centre for Social and Cultural Research and the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, speakers include leading sports academics and industry professionals.
Griffith University Research Fellow Dr Adele Pavlidis, who is researching women and contact sport, said while women’s participation at elite and recreational levels was being acknowledged as valuable, there was still a long way to go.
Dr Adele Pavlidis.
“Barriers include equal pay and access to competition and training facilities as well as equal media coverage,’’ she said.
“We need to work across silos and work together so we can increase women’s participation in all sports traditionally dominated by males.”
She said women’s contact sports such as AFL competition, rugby sevens and rugby league were now commanding serious media and audience
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