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Here's to the women who inspire us every day with their determination and courage. Wishing you all a Happy Women's Day filled with success and empowerment! 💼✨ . . . #women #womensday #internationalwomensday #womensday2024 #womenempowerment #IELTS #PTE #IELTSCoaching #PTECoaching #coachingsquare

Sport doesn't only develop sport skills, but is a powerful tool for social and personal skills and helps people to develop. And through that, entire communities grow. With our partners in the Sport for Development programme, we join forces to support youth in 18 countries and believe in the potential of these future stars. Together we use the power of sport for better education, better health and a better future. In the new release of the SfD newsletter, you can read the story of Vineet from India 👀 🤝 KNHB  KNVB World Coaches Right To Play Nederland  ISA Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken  Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO) #SportforDevelopment #Gameupforchange #SDG8 #Sustainabledevelopmentgoals #Youthatheart #MinisteryNL #GlobalGoals #YouthEmpowerment #SportsForChange #hockey #development #education #lifeskills #hockeydreams #sportfordevelopment #powerthroughsport #africanhockey

#Gender and #Chess You already read the news (if not, then now you did) #India is future of chess India’s chess masters have created history by winning team gold medals in both #women’s and #men’s competitions #FIDE #ChessOlympiad What is #GenderEquality in Chess? Research commissioned by the World Chess Federation's (FIDE) ranked 105 of the world's national chess federations to create a new Gender Equality in Chess Index (#GECI). Top of the table was #Mongolia with the highest GECI score of 86.53. According to the report, almost 40% of Mongolia’s active players on the September 2023 FIDE rating list are women. #India and #Russia — traditionally two of the strongest nations at the elite level of #women's chess—are placed 24th and 25th respectively. The #Nordic nations fare badly, with #Denmark bottom of the table with a GECI score of 34.34, #Iceland second-worst in 104th, #Sweden ranked 102nd, #Finland in 99th, and #Norway 94th. There are good things to learn about #genderequality from #developingcountries

Did you know that judo contributes significantly to the pursuit of several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations? We are actively working to implement it as a tool for social initiatives and community development.   ♦️SD Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. ♦️SD Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning. ♦️SD Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. ♦️SD Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Judo is an innovative and effective tool to assist existing efforts to achieve specific targets/ goals such as those concerning education and gender equality. It contributes to well-being regardless of age, gender or ethnicity. All enjoy it, and its reach is unrivalled. Judo provides #lifelonglearning. By participating in judo, students are exposed to the sport’s key values, including teamwork, #fairplay ,#respect for the rules and others, cooperation, #discipline and #tolerance. These skills are essential for future participation in group activities and #professional life and can stimulate #cohesion within communities and societies. #judogolovec

In December, 2019, I wrote this article for my column in SheThePeople .TV in after what has come to be known as the ' Nirbhaya incident'. It is chilling to see how little has changed in the past 4 years. I could be writing the same article today as well after the 'Kolkata case.' Through the work of Growing Leadership of Women ,the Powerfulife system, we are providing resources for women to recognize and live their power. Our - Rajesh Ramakrishnan Kaavya Rajesh non profit My Daughter is Precious provides scholarships and mentorships for young women to complete their higher education. These are drops in a large ocean of work to be done to achieve gender equality, power parity and stop crimes against women. As women seek to break the old norms of patriarchy and claim their power, there will be a backlash! We need to be prepared and act. In this article, I list 10 things each of us can do to prevent such incidents from happening. Do read and see if this resonates. It will not happen tomorrow or the next year. But I believe we must not stop trying but try harder. If you are doing any of these things, do comment, share and inspire others. If anyone is willing to step in and support, do let me know. If someone is doing good work, do amplify and share. AyeshaQureshi (AlluringForlorn) Aparna Mathur https://lnkd.in/gGFXyR-R

Highlights from this weekend’s Golf MasterClass. Let’s get yours scheduled today! ⛳️ #GolfSkills = #BusinessSkills #ETG #CoachHelyne #LPGA #GrowTheGame #biotech #finance #business #travel #MasterClass

On International Mentoring Day, I look back on my own career, through which I've been fortunate enough to have mentors and sponsors who believed in my potential and provided support that has been instrumental in my journey. I've talked before about how important it is for women to have a support system of female mentors around them when they're rising in the ranks. What's not spoken about enough in my opinion is the importance of also having male sponsors. Not only do they offer alternative perspectives from our own, but their advocacy can be a catalyst for change, breaking through gender biases and fostering environments of inclusion. One way of describing it is in the context of having a seasoned guide on a challenging mountain expedition. ➡️ A mentor, regardless of gender, is like a knowledgeable sherpa, providing advice, sharing insights, and helping you navigate the unpredictable terrain. Now, think of a male sponsor as not just a sherpa but a seasoned mountaineer who has conquered those peaks before. They not only guide you but also actively pave the way, helping you climb higher and faster. Just as a seasoned mountaineer can open up new paths, male sponsors can break through barriers that might be harder to dismantle from the outside. #InternationalMentoringDay #Inclusion #Mentorship #Sponsorship

For those of you who couldn't make the SAGE Griffith University session last week presented by Judith Solanas here is the recording What the presentation is about? #Sport institutions are highly gendered and (hetero-)sexualised places. As such, previous research has illustrated that #lesbian #coaches face double discrimination (as women and lesbians) that have resulted in harassment, limited opportunities, and a need to manage their identities. Despite this, there is a prevailing belief that women coaches benefit from experience in men’s and competitive sport spaces. The purpose of this paper was to examine how lesbian coaches are affected by, and produce affect in, their sporting spaces in Spain. We used a queer phenomenological (Ahmed, 2006) approach that considered how the interconnected nature of orientations, spaces, and bodies come to matter for queer persons. Taking a conversational inquiry approach (Leavy 2017), we use data from 16 semi-structured individual interviews (Kvale 1996) with lesbian coaches. The data were analysed using a dialectical approach (Freeman 2017), typological coding (Saldaña 2016), analytic memos (Marshall and Rossman 2011), and abductive analysis (Reichertz 2009). Our initial findings suggest that lesbian coaches experienced dis-orientations during their time in competitive and men’s sporting spaces. These experiences, however, led them to women-led ‘alternative’ sport spaces (e.g., grassroots, disability, action) where they were able to develop a new (more inclusive) coaching orientation. As a result, these coaches took these orientations into new spaces in order to make sport more inclusive and diverse. We conclude the paper by arguing that lesbian coaches are better served with gaining coaching experiences in alternative spaces where they are valued and empowered to develop a coaching orientation that aligns with their vision of sport. Judith Solanas is a PhD student at the National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia (INEFC) which is part of the University of Barcelona (Spain). Prior to INEFC, she received her degree from Breda University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands). Her research is broadly situated in LGBTQ+ topics within sport and physical activity. She is currently a faculty member at the EU Business School in the Sport Management Program. In addition to this work, she is on the directors’ board for the Federation of the Gay Games (FGG), serves on the women's committee of the Iberian Sports Association (ADI LGTBI+) and Panteres Grogues, and is a member of the Research Network in LGTBIQ+ issues in Physical Education and Sport. Her PhD thesis is focused on Lesbian Coaches experiences in Spanish Sport settings. Her research draws on critical theories to examine how Lesbian coaches are influenced by, and produce influence within, their sport settings. https://lnkd.in/g8TC57vk

"As early as age 5, many girls begin to develop limiting self-beliefs. They stop believing they can do or be anything. By age 7, girls are more likely to believe that boys are smarter."   The dream gap is defined as "a phenomenon where young girls are held back from living up to their full potential, due to social constructions that women are less capable and valuable than men" 📣 Advocate for educating & inspiring young women with the education & skills to pursue 21st-century opportunities 📣 Highlight the importance of reforming attitudes toward the gender pay gap 📣 Promote female role models Women In Data™️ Harnham

In the formative years of childhood, the seeds of our future are sown. It's disheartening to learn that by the tender age of 5, many girls encounter the Dream Gap, a chasm where the boundless belief in what they can achieve begins to narrow, hemmed in by limiting self-beliefs and gender stereotypes. This is more than just a phase; it's a societal pattern that, over time, contributes to the pervasive wage gap we witness in adulthood. EmpowHERment Consulting stands in full support of Barbie's efforts to close the Dream Gap. We recognize that empowering girls from the start is crucial in cultivating a generation that believes in their potential—untethered from the misconceptions that their gender dictates their future. As these girls grow into women who will enter the workforce, their fortified self-belief is essential in advocating for and achieving pay parity across all genders. By nurturing the dreams of young girls, we're laying the groundwork for a world where pay parity is the norm, and the sky's the limit for what they can accomplish. It's a world where their early dreams translate into real-world success and equity. Let's join forces to bridge these gaps, from the dreams of young girls to the wages of working women. Together, we can rewrite the narrative and create a legacy of empowerment, equality, and excellence. #DreamGap #CloseTheWageGap #EmpowHERmentConsulting #Barbie #PayParity #GenderEquality #EmpowerGirls #FutureLeaders #EqualPay #BreakingBarriers https://lnkd.in/ew7JdpV4