women in sport – Sports Gazette

The reluctant trailblazer: Julie Welch reflects on being Fleet Street’s first female football reporter

by Oli Stein - 25 March 201925 March 2019 01100

On August 25, 1973, two concurrent events occurred. Not only did Tottenham Hotspur lose 1-0 away to Coventry City in the first game of the Division One season, but Julie Welch became Fleet Street’s first female football reporter as she was sat in the old Highfield Road press box covering

How the Girls Active campaign is changing girls’ lives

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by Sarah Glenton - 12 March 201912 March 2019 0281

Founded in 1995 in Leicestershire, the Youth Sport Trust works with thousands of schools across the UK in order to increase participation in sports and promote a healthy lifestyle for children and young people Research conducted by the Youth Sport Trust has shown that, on average, girls are less likely to take part in

From the early female football pioneers to the female face of e-sports — Chapter 4 Part 1

by Megan Dymmock-Morgan - 9 March 20199 March 2019 3435

This is fourth in a multi-part series on women in sport. Chapter 1 explored the early days of the Olympic movement, Chapter 2 grapples with the struggles of sexual identity and Chapter 3 looks at the influence of the media on gender views. Chapter 4: Sexualisation of Women's Sport (part 1 of 2) Imagine making

“Because I loved boxing, people assumed that I wanted to be a boy”: Stacey Copeland on women’s boxing, perceptions of femininity and deciding against a nickname

by Nick Friend - 11 March 2018 01845

Until 1997, women could not legally box in Great Britain. It would be another fifteen years before Nicola Adams and Katie Taylor would announce themselves to the world in London, as women’s boxing made its debut at the 2012 Olympics. Six years on, there are just three weight categories for women