Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
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The largest ever collection of women’s football memorabilia and historical items has been acquired by the National Football Museum in preparation for an exhibition expected to be opened this year.
The items in the collection date as far back as 1869 – the same decade as the founding of the men’s Football Association – and continue throughout the 50-year ban of the women’s game and into the modern era. More
When author Kamila Shamsie challenged the book industry to publish only women in 2018 to help address a gender imbalance in literature, just one publisher took up the challenge – the Sheffield-based company And Other Stories.
It was almost three years ago that Shamsie suggested “a concerted campaign to redress the inequality” in publishing.
Arguing that there was a gender bias in book awards, reviews, top publishing jobs and prestige afforded to authors, she suggested that 2018, the centenary of women over 30 in Britain getting the vote, would make a good Year of Publishing Women. More
Kim “Geguri” Se-Yeon is joining the Shanghai Dragons and will be one of the very few female players in eSports competing at a top professional level.
There’s been a lot of speculation about it online in recent weeks, but it was finally confirmed by the team on Twitter on Wednesday.
It comes after recent discussions about the lack of female involvement in the league. More
Giving pardons to women who were jailed while fighting for the right to vote would be “complicated”, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said.
But she said she would “take a look”, 100 years on from some women getting the vote in the UK.
Jeremy Corbyn said a Labour government would apologise to suffragettes and have criminal records overturned.
Helen Pankhurst, great-granddaughter of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, said the women had been pardoned by society. More
England World Cup winner Anya Shrubsole has become the first woman to appear on the cover of the “iconic” Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.
The 26-year-old was named player of the match as England beat India at Lord’s to win the World Cup last year.
The Somerset bowler took five wickets in 19 balls as she claimed 6-46, the best figures in a World Cup final.
“To be on the front of such an iconic and historic book means a huge amount,” said the England vice-captain.
“It’s an amazing honour and privilege. It’s a clear representation of the strength of the women’s game.” More
A statue to the suffragette who died after throwing herself in front of King George V’s horse is to be erected.
The memorial to Emily Davison, who died four days after being trampled at the Epsom Derby in 1913, will be placed in Carlisle Park, Morpeth, Northumberland.
Northumberland County Council has pledged £50,000 towards the statue.
It is hoped the monument will be in place by July to coincide with the centenary of women getting the vote.
Before her death Miss Davison was frequently arrested and even imprisoned for her part in demonstrations in support of the Women’s Social and Political Union. More
The Football Association will interview at least one applicant from a black, Asian and minority ethnic background for future roles in the England set-up.
English football’s governing body will adopt its own version of the ‘Rooney Rule’ implemented in the NFL in 2003.
Chief executive Martin Glenn said the move showed the “FA is for all”.
“The FA wants to become a more inclusive organisation where the workforce more represents the people who play football today,” Glenn said.
Speaking to BBC Sport, he added: “What it will say is the opportunity to have a career beyond playing is something that the FA is serious about promoting.” More
A case that could determine whether firms have to pay fathers on maternity leave the same as women is being heard by the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
The support services firm Capita is appealing against a ruling in June that it failed to give a new father full paternity leave rights.
Madasar Ali, whose wife had post-natal depression, was offered two weeks’ pay, whereas a woman is paid for 14 weeks.
A tribunal ruled Mr Ali, a call centre worker, had been discriminated against.
The BBC’s legal correspondent Clive Coleman says the outcome of the appeal will be binding for similar cases in the future. More
The most visible shock during BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year show was the 50-1 outsider Mo Farah winning the main award, the four-times Olympic champion having long given up hope of reaching the podium again. But the odds are seemingly even more stacked against female nominees, with debate about the reasons why raging.
The four women on the 12-strong shortlist occupied the bottom four places, accounting for just 8% of the public vote. A leading women’s sport charity and feminist political party expressed their surprise to the Guardian that Anya Shrubsole (15,237 votes) Bianca Walkden (13,962) Johanna Konta (7,591) and Elise Christie (6,504) between them raked in fewer than half the number of votes Farah (83,524) received. More
Australia’s rugby union governing body has chosen Raelene Castle as its new chief executive, the first time a woman has been given the job.
Rugby Australia said Ms Castle was “extremely impressive” with an “outstanding track record”.
The appointment of the experienced sports administrator makes her the first female leader across all major national bodies in world rugby.
She reportedly beat more than 200 candidates for the job. More