{"id":3544,"date":"2021-12-22T11:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2021-12-22T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:52:39","slug":"winter-olympics-beijing-2022-will-have-lowest-ever-gender-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2021\/12\/22\/winter-olympics-beijing-2022-will-have-lowest-ever-gender-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics: Beijing 2022 will have lowest-ever gender gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/12\/122326367_charlottebankes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/12\/122326367_charlottebankes.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/12\/122326367_charlottebankes-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/12\/122326367_charlottebankes-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Beijing Winter Olympics will be the most gender-equal Games ever, data experts say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gracenote says the proportion of events in which women can compete will increase for the 11th successive Games &#8211; with 52.75% of events for men and 47.25% for women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women will have nearly four times as many events to participate in as they did in 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Games take place from 4-20 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first Games in Chamonix, France in 1924 had only two events which women could participate &#8211; the figure skating mixed pairs competition and the ladies&#8217; singles &#8211; but 14 events for men, and had a gender gap of 81.3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That gap has now declined to 5.5% for Beijing, with 12 of the 15 sports now gender-equal. Nordic combined is the only remaining sport with no female participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beijing Winter Olympics will be the most gender-equal Games ever, data experts say. Gracenote says the proportion of events in which women can compete will increase for the 11th successive Games &#8211; with 52.75% &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equality","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}