We chatted to Her Sport about gender inequality on the Irish sport's scene – and what needs to change 🏌️♀️🏊♀️🏋️♀️
Six percent of sports media coverage in Ireland goes to women in sport. Yes, you read that right – six percent.
Niamh sat down with us last week to tell us a little more about what Her Sport are trying to achieve, and how change can be made when it comes to Irish women in sport.What we’re trying to do at Her Sport is increase media coverage, so that there’s role models and examples for women and girls in sport.
A lot of it is where we’ve come from, “women’s place in society”, so it’s not going to change over night or over a couple of years even. It’s only fifty years ago that the marriage ban was lifted. Gradually it’s changing…but we have a bit to go! There’s also challenges with access to pitches; support with kits; coaches. There’s a problem with coaching in women’s sport. It’s not taking away from the coaches who are giving up their time to coach female teams; they’re trying their best. But the coaching that’s being offered to girls, it’s this default where the more talented coaches get put with the boys from a younger age. There’s less interest in the girls.
We have to make things interesting and exciting for everybody. You show up to a pub and there’s no women’s sport there, so you can’t really get excited about it, you can’t watch it with your friends. One thing that’s missing, and that we’re trying to put a huge effort into, is profiling and showcasing the athletes and their personalities. There’s a lot of great stories, it’s not always “Oh I started running when I was four years old!”.You know, Chloe Mustaki made her debut for the senior women’s football team there in the last 12 months. She used to captain the team at underage level.
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