Gender Balance in New Zealand Olympic Sport Research Completed
Title
Gender Balance in New Zealand Olympic Sport
Lead Author
Robyn Cockburn , Kim Gray, Richard Thompson
Organisation(s)
Algate Enterprises for the New Zealand Olympic Committee
Publication Year
2007
Publisher
New Zealand Olympic Committee
Contacts
e-mail: office@olympic.org.nz
Abstract
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has, as one of its core objectives, the issue of gender balance in Olympic sports. The IOC has for some time expressed concern at the level of women’s involvement in decision-making roles within member sports organisations and has a commitment to achieve a 20% participation rate of women in decision-making positions in national and international sports organisations. Detailed analysis of the gender balance of New Zealand sport was last done in 1994.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC), through its Women in Sport Working Group, employed Algate to quantify the extent to which there is gender balance in leadership and decision-making positions in New Zealand sport.
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Gender, gender balance, leadership, governance
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