Oceania Women & Sport News
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Shaking up the Boys Club
Latest news from the International Working Group on Women and Sport
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Oceania Women & Sport "NEWS" Issue 5
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Ministry of Women's Affairs - Women on Boards Website
"We should be on TV!"
Article from the Australian Leisure Management magazine, July/August 2010, written by Kate Palmer Chief Executive of Netball Australia. Click here to read the full article
The Business of Greatness
Regular Canadian Journal of Women in Coaching contributor Rose Mercier has tapped into her own successful business experiences to produce an invaluable guide by which women coaches can (and should) conduct their professional lives in order to get the maximum benefit from their chosen career. So often driven by passion for the sport they coach, women coaches, more often than not, forget all about caring for themselves. They ignore the importance of operating within a well-thought-out framework consisting of a career plan, solid business practices, and a well-defined vision based on carefully articulated values. Click here to read full document
© 2008 Coaching Association of Canada, ISSN 1496-1539 October 2008, Vol. 8, No. 4
Why Gender Balance
Two interesting international articles can be found here detailing the benefits of including women within decision making structures and at governance level. Download these papers below.
Innovative Potential - Men and Women in Teams - Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business 2007.
Trophy Women - Why Gender Balance is Good for Business for Sport
This report draws on lessons from the world’s most successful companies to evidence a compelling case for women’s place in the boardrooms of British sport. Working hand in hand with leaders in sport, the Commissionon the Future of Women's Sport looks to highlight the problems, provide practical solutions and to increase the number of women in leadership positions.
Conceived by the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF), the Commission on the Future of Women’s Sport aims to unlock the exceptional potential of women’s sport, by addressing the problems of leadership, investment and profile in the sector.
Also a piece about General Representation in New Zealand in New Zealand Olympic Sports.
Diversity in Action
EEO focuses on diversity in the work place. This spring they have released a report entitled "This could be my daughter". Encouraging women to the board room table they are looking at the issue that women’s progress to directorship in New Zealand has stalled – but fresh projects aim to inject new momentum.