{"id":10300,"date":"2024-05-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportottawa.ca\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:36:09","slug":"empowering-women-in-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportottawa.ca\/fr\/empowering-women-in-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Women in Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2024 has been one of the strongest years on record for the growth of women\u2019s professional sports. The launch of the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League (PWHL) broke one attendance record after another while providing a sustainable league for women to play professional hockey. Caitlin Clark drew millions of eyes to her dominant run at the NCAA Women\u2019s Basketball National Championship, which featured a championship game where an average of 18.9 million people tuned in to watch on ESPN. That\u2019s an increase of over 4 million average viewers compared to the men\u2019s final the next night. The popularity of women\u2019s sports at the professional level is clearly on the rise, but what about at the grassroots level?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Canadian Women and Sport released its latest edition of <\/span><a href=\"\/fr\/blank\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Rally Report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in 2022, which is in-depth look at how Canadian girls and women, and women sport leaders, experienced sport in 2022. One of the key takeaways from the report was that by adolescence, half of girls were not participating in sports, while the 14 percent of girls who returned to play after the pandemic were not participating to the extent that they used to. The report indicated that while participation numbers held steady through the pandemic, they were still low overall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs much as we love sport, the truth is the current system isn\u2019t inclusive enough. It\u2019s time to disrupt the old norms and create the conditions for more girls, women and gender-diverse people to participate fully and safely in sport.\u201d \u2013 Canadian Women and Sport, Rally Report 2022<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sirc.ca\/blog\/50-years-canadian-womens-sport\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 2023 article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) explored women\u2019s sport in Canada over the last 50 years. The article discusses the Government of Canada\u2019s commitment to achieving gender equality in Canadian sport at every level by 2035. The author, M. Ann Hall, gave the opinion that this is unlikely to happen without the collaboration of governments and organizations devoted to bettering women\u2019s sport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ottawa Sport Council\u2019s recently released<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawabelongingplaybook.ca\/additionalresources\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Belonging Playbook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> contains a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/womenandsport.ca\/gender-equity\/benefits-of-gender-equity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">resource from Canadian Women and Sport<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that discusses the benefits of gender equity in sport, including how it can impact sport participation. By committing to gender equity, a sport organization can garner a positive environment for the participation of women and girls, while also decreasing the drop-out rate of women and girls in sport through gender-friendly guidance and coaching.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do you want to commit to gender equity in your sport organization? Learn more about how to support equitable and inclusive practices, including gender and sexuality inclusion in sport, from the free resources in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawabelongingplaybook.ca\/additionalresources\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Le guide de jeu de l'appartenance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popularity of women\u2019s sports at the professional level is clearly on the rise, but what about at the grassroots level?\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":81908012,"featured_media":10301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgVRos-2G8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14531,"url":"https:\/\/sportottawa.ca\/fr\/community-sport-heroes-canadian-ringette-championships-volunteers-officials\/","url_meta":{"origin":10300,"position":0},"title":"H\u00e9ros du sport communautaire\u00a0: B\u00e9n\u00e9voles et officiels des Championnats canadiens de ringuette","author":"sportsottawa","date":"avril 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Le Conseil des sports d\u2019Ottawa est heureux de vous pr\u00e9senter ses plus r\u00e9cents H\u00e9ros du sport communautaire\u00a0: les b\u00e9n\u00e9voles, les officiels et les dirigeants qui ont contribu\u00e9 au succ\u00e8s des r\u00e9cents Championnats canadiens de ringuette\u00a0! 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