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"Road to Gender Equality within the Olympic Movement" event hosted by NOC and the Ministry of Sport in the Misiones Province.
"Sport for All" is debated in the House of Commons – women and sport feature strongly.
"Together We Are Stronger - Gender Equity in Judo" - a conference dedicated to gender equality before the International Judo Federation (IJF) World Championships is hosted.
(Predominantly western, privileged) Women compete for first time in the second Summer Olympic Games, Paris. Tennis and Golf are introduced as...
10th International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Warwick, UK
11th International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference in Bali.
11th Summer Olympic Games, London, UK. Canoe-Kayak, Long Jump and Shot Put are introduced as sports for women to compete in. Women make up 9.5% of...
11th Winter Olympic Games, Sapporo. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 20.5% of total athletes.
12th International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Melbourne. This conference has been...
12th Summer Olympic Games, Helsinki. Equestrian is introduced as a sport for women to compete in. Women make up 10.5% of total athletes.
12th Winter Olympic Games, Innsbruck. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 20.6% of total athletes.
13th International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Lahti.
13th Olympic Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark issues a recommendation ‘aimed at strengthening the women and sport policy’.
13th Summer Olympic Games, Melbourne. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 13.3% of total athletes.
13th Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 21.7 % of total athletes.
14th International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) Congress, Alexandria. The pre-congress event was in...
14th Summer Olympic Games, Rome. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 11.4% of total athletes.
14th Winter Olympic Games, Sarajevo. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 21.5% of total athletes.
15th International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Congress, Edmonton, titled ‘Learning and Leaders’.
15th Summer Olympic Games, Tokyo. The 400m is introduced, as is Volleyball – the first team sport for women – for women to compete in. Women make...
15th Winter Olympic Games, Calgary. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 21.2% of total athletes.
16th International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Congress, Cape Town, with the theme ‘Practice...
16th Summer Olympic Games, Mexico City. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 14.2% of total athletes.
16th Winter Olympic Games, Albertville. Biathlon is introduced as an event for women to compete in. Women make up 27.1% of total athletes.
17th International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Congress, Havana. The outcome of the congress...
17th Summer Olympic Games, Munich. The 1500m is introduced as an event for women to compete in. Women make up 14.6% of total athletes.
17th Winter Olympic Games, Lillehammer. Women make up 30% of total athletes.
18th Summer Olympic Games, Montreal. Basketball, Handball and Rowing are introduced as sports for women to compete in. Women make up 20.7% of total...
18th Winter Olympic Games, Nagano. Curling and Ice Hockey are introduced as events for women to compete in. Women make up 36.2% of total athletes.
19th Summer Olympic Games, Moscow. Field Hockey is introduced as a sport for women to compete in. Women make up 21.5% of total athletes.
19th Winter Olympic Games, Salt Lake City. Bobsleigh is introduced as a sport for women to compete. Women make up 36.9% of total athletes.
1st Asian Conference on Women and Sport, Manila, Philippines organised by International Council of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport...
1st International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference on Women and Sport, Lausanne. A Resolution on Women and Sport is passed containing...
1st Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR) Conference on Women and Sport, Mar Del Plata.
1st Portuguese Congress on Women and Sport, Lisbon. Over 300 participants. NOTE – National Association of Women and Sports may have been formed...
20th Summer Olympic Games, Los Angeles. Shooting and the Cycling road race – 88 years after the first men’s event – are introduced as events for...
20th Winter Olympic Games, Turin. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 38.2% of total athletes.
21st Summer Olympic Games, Seoul. Table Tennis and Sailing are introduced as events for women to compete in. Tennis is reintroduced as a sport for...
21st Winter Olympic Games, Vancouver. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 40.7% of total athletes.
22nd Summer Olympic Games, Barcelona. Badminton and Judo are introduced as events for women to compete in. Women make up 28.8% of total athletes.
22nd Winter Olympic Games, Sochi. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 40.3% of total athletes.
23rd Summer Olympic Games, Atlanta. Football and Softball are introduced as events for women to compete in. Women make up 34% of total athletes.
24th Summer Olympic Games, Sydney. Modern Pentathlon, Taekwondo, Triathlon and Weightlifting are introduced as events for women to compete in....
25th Summer Olympic Games, Athens. Wrestling is introduced as a sport for women to compete in. Women make up 40.7% of total athletes.
26 International Sports Federations meet in Lausanne in reaction to a perceived lack of power in the Olympic Movement (see 1976).
26th Summer Olympic Games, Beijing. No new sports are introduced for women, Women make up 42.4% of total athletes.
27th Summer Olympic Games, London. Boxing is introduced as a sport for women to compete in. Women make up 44.2% of total athletes.
28th Summer Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro. Rugby is introduced as a sport for women to compete in. Golf is reintroduced. It is the...
2nd European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) conference, Stockholm, titled ‘Women, Sport and Health’.
2nd National Conference on Women and Sport, Medellin.
39th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW), New York. WomenSport International (WSI) and International Working...
50th Anniversary of the Korean Physical Education for Girls and Women (KPEAW).
8th European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Conference in Limassol.
8th European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Conference, London.
A celebratory meeting of 54 female athletes from Uruguay who had competed at the international level in many different sports was organised by the...
A Co-ordinating Group on Women’s Sport is formed by UK Sport and starts planning the UK Strategy for Women’s Sport.
A Commonwealth Women and Sport Network formed after the Auckland Commonwealth Games and International Council of Health, Physical Education,...
A crowd of 60,739 people watched Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid, Spain - a world record attendance figure for women's sport.
A day designated to the acknowledgment of women is set in the country.
A Development Conference for Women Sport occurs.
A final report by a Working Party on Strengthening Commonwealth Sport highlights concerns over women in sport in the Commonwealth Games.
A Forum for Women Leaders in Sport in the Americas is co-organised by the IOC, the Peruvian NOC and the Pan-American Sports Organisation (PASO) in Lima, Peru.
A gender equality breakfast is hosted by GB Taekwondo in collaboration with UK Sport just before the World Championships. Leading figures in the sport presented their experiences and opinions.
A Gender Equality Review project report is published, which includes 25 recommendations (ratified Feb2018) for achieving gender equality in sport.
A General Directorate on the Status of Women, attached to the Prime Ministry, was founded and later in the year women are given right to work...
A Global Tribunal on Violations of Women’s Human Rights at the United Nations (UN) World Conference, Vienna. The outcome is that women’s human...
A Government Sports Leadership Grants for Women scheme is run through the Australian Sports Commission (ASC).
A Great Britain Sports Council paper reveals ‘there is clear evidence of sex discrimination relating to membership, committees and playing and...
A meeting to discuss the establishment of an Oceania Women in Sport Committee (see 2004 Apr).
A multi-regional voluntary visitors project on Women in Sports and Gender Equity Issues is launched.
A national conference leads to the formation of the South African Sportswomen’s Foundation (SASF).
A national participation framework called ‘Active Australia’ is launched. It later influences women and sport policy (see 1999).
A national seminar called ‘Women and Sport: Taking the Lead’ is hosted.
A national seminar called ‘Women and Sport’ is hosted in Madrid and has 500 delegates.
A National Seminar on Women and Sport is hosted in cooperation with the National Olympic Committee and the national Sports Federation.
A national Sports Council Women and Sports Working Group is established (see 1999 Mar).
A National Women and Girls in Sports Day is hosted and is held annually thereafter.
A national Women and Sport Conference called ‘No Limits, No Barriers’ is attended by over 200 women from the islands and other Caribbean nations.
A national Women Project to increase the number of top level female athletes and female leaders in sport.
A national women’s football team is established.
A national ‘Woman in Sport Campaign for Equality’ began.
A network of women in national sports federations is established under the supervision of the Sport Federation.
A new Confederation of Sports central Women’s Committee is formed.
A new National Council and a National Strategy for Women in Sport are launched.
A new Penal Code ranges from topics including rape to abortion in favour of women.
A new Women’s Law to prevent commercial discrimination is passed.
A panel discussion on gender equality in sport is part of the 62nd Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW).
A Policy and Plan for Women in Sport is formulated by the Australian Sports Commission in response to recommendations made in a ‘Women, Sport and...
A programme of annual seminars occurs including one in this month with the theme ‘Integration of Sportswomen’.
A range of different events are added to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic programme, including women's monobob and women's big air.
A Report by the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (est. 1967) included the fact that fewer girls than boys participated in sports in Canadian...
A report entitled ‘Physical Activity and Aging: A Focus on Women’ is submitted to the Canadian Government.
A report entitled ‘Physical Activity and Women with Disabilities: A National Survey’ is submitted to the Government.
A report of the ‘National Task Force on Young Females and Physical Activity: The Status Quo and Strategies for Change’ submitted to Government.
A report on ‘The Gender Structure of National Sports Organisations’ is submitted to the government.
A research project financially assisted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) examines the experience and meaning of sport and exercise in...
A research report about ‘Women in Sports Leadership’ in Northern Ireland is produced.
A Resolution on Women and Sport is passed at the 22nd Congress of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women in Italy.
A seminar for the ‘development for people in charge of women’s football’ occurs in Suzho.
A seminar in Warsaw is hosted on the topic of gender balance within the International Biathlon Union (IBU). Over 40 participants from 34 countries took part in the seminar and data from surveys was used to lobby for changes to be made.
A Seminar on Women and Sport, which includes a presentation of plans constructed by the recently formed Confederation of Sport Working Group (see...
A seminar on Women in Sport and the Media is hosted in Northern Ireland.
A session during the 60th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) focused on “Women’s Empowerment and its Link to Sustainable Development”, along with “The Elimination and Prevention of all Forms of Violence against Women and Girls”.
A Singapore Women and Sport Group is created. NOTE – This may simply be a change in name of the Singapore Sport Council (SSC) Women and Sport...
A sport management seminar for women under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) occurs in Lausanne.
A study titled ‘Data on Women in Sport’ by the Japanese Association Women in Sport (JWS) leads to the release of the first White Paper on women’s...
A Symposium on Women and Sport is hosted in the country for the first time.
A three year project on the Sporting Heritage of Disability and Women's Sports is launched. The programme outcomes include scoping sporting heritage, developing a digital toolkit, creating a network and sharing sporting heritage.
A two-day workshop supporting the development of Asian women in Para-sport was organised as part of the Sport for Tomorrow programme by the Japan Sport Council (JSC) in conjunction with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Japanese Paralympic
A Unit for the Advancement of Women in Sport is established as part of the Sports and Physical Education Authority of the Ministry of Education.
A United Nations (UN) International Summit and conference called ‘Affecting Social Change through Women’s Leadership in Sport’ is hosted in Atlanta.
A United Nations Human Rights Council report has called on sporting bodies to "review, revise and revoke" eligibility rules which have a negative impact on athletes’ rights, with the document highlighting the case of Caster Semenya. The report also sug...
A walkout by players in the folded Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) and the United States-based National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) occurs in response to unfair resources and salaries.
A White Paper on Equality for Women set the groundwork for the Sex Discrimination Act that was introduced the following year.
A Women and Sport Committee within the National Sports Association is established.
A women and sport conference titled ‘Collecting and Sharing Good Practice’ is hosted in Arnhem, organised by the national Sports Confederation and...
A Women and Sport Seminar for the South-East Asia Region is hosted in Bangkok.
A Women and Sport seminar is hosted at the Great Britain Sports Council’s annual national conference.
A Women and Sport Seminar is hosted in Kuala Lumpur.
A Women and Sport ‘Alliance’ is formed as the result of different women meeting at the Olympic Academy.
A Women in Sports Network in Austria hosts its first meeting.
A Women Sports Committee is established under the supervision of the National Sports Federation, a few years after the Islamic Revolution. However,...
A women's committee of the Central Sports Federation is founded.
A Women’s Forum is hosted at the Table Tennis World Individual Championships of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in Paris. This is...
A Women’s Snooker Day is used to showcase the women's game at the World Snooker Championships
A Working Group on Women and Sport is set up to advise the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board and its President on ‘the measures...
A Working Women's Welfare Law is passed to improve the status of working women.
A year after it was built as the first continuous motor-racing circuit in the world, national newspapers report that a single ‘novelty’ race had...
A ‘Commission Nationale du Sport Féminin’ is established by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
A ‘Leadership for Women in Sport’ course has 200 participants.
A ‘Year for Women and Sport’ occurred.
A ‘Year of Women and Sport’ in the country. For the next decade at least, women and sport awards were presented across three categories.
Action 4 of the Kazan Action Plan was a call to member nations for conducting a feasibility study on the establishment of a Global Observatory for Women, Sport, Physical Education and Physical Activity in alignment with its mission of promoting the emp...
Adidas announce that all athletes on the winning 2019 World Cup team will receive the same performance bonus payout as their male peers for the first time.
Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance (AFAHPERSD) formally inaugurated in Botswana.
African Women in Sport Association (AWISA) Executive Board meeting, Abuja.
African Women in Sport Association (AWISA) officially launched immediately before the second World Conference on Women and Sport (see 1998 May).
African Women Sports Leaders Forum, Dar-es-Salaam.
After an unofficial ban on women entering stadiums had been in place since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, nearly 5,000 women watched Iran's FIFA World Cup 2022 qualifier against Cambodia. Previously, Human Rights Watch had described the cap on tickets av...
AIBA to allow female boxers to wear hijabs after uniform changes are approved by the Executive Committee.
Albanian Women and Sport Foundation founded.
Alice Milliat (see 1921) heavily involved with nine international conferences on women’s sports (Paris, Gothenburg, Amsterdam, Prague, Vienna,...
All England Croquet Club first Lady Championship of England.
All-England Women’s Field Hockey Association established after women were refused entry to the England Hockey Association.
American Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) established.
American Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) sanctions the marathon race for women in the country.
American Association for the Advancement of Physical (APEA) Section on Women’s Athletics (see 1927) renamed to Rules and Editorial Committee (see...
American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education (APEA) created.
American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education (APEA) Rules and Editorial Committee (see 1931) renamed to American Association for...
American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education Commission on Women’s Athletics (APEACWA) (see 1899) renamed to Section on Women’s...
American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education National Section on Women’s Athletics (APEANWSA) (see 1932) renamed American...
American branch of International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) annual meeting, San Francisco. It is...
American College of Sports Medicine 40th Annual Meeting, Seattle. There was a focus on the Female Athlete Triad and a Call to Action was produced....
American Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim the English Channel and beats the men's record too.
An advisory committee on women’s sport is formed.
An Asian Women's Camp is hosted at the Malaysia National Ice Skating Centre, Kuala Lumpur, by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Sixty-nine players and 11 coaches took part from Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Phi...
An embryonic meeting in London between various stakeholders sees the origins of what was to become the Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) (see...
An extensive review of women and sport research is conducted by Tess Kay at Loughborough University on behalf of the Great Britain Sports Council.
An initiative called Spikes is formed and reports five recommendations to the Ministry of Education. It is aided by the revision of the national...
An International Congress titled ‘Face to Face: Gender Equity in Sport’, San Juan, is hosted by the national Department of Recreation and Sports.
An International Congress titled ‘Sport, Women and Leadership’ is hosted in Berlin.
An International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission ad-hoc committee meets in Stockholm, to discuss sex reassignment in sports (see 2010).
An international seminar titled ‘Women in decision making in Sport’ is hosted in Prague.
An International Women and Sport Meeting is hosted by the Great Britain Sports Council, London, to discuss how international strategies on women...
An Oceania Women in Sports Commission (OWIS) (see 2004 Apr) Working Group is formed after meetings between athletes, coaches and support staff at...
Anita DeFrantz becomes an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President.
Anita DeFrantz elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She goes on to have a significant impact on the organisation’s...
As early as the late 1950s, the all-male IOC membership was debating gender equity, predominantly with regard to participation, though acknowledgment of the IOC’s all male leadership was noted at IOC Sessions. A commission responsible for reviewing the...
Asian Women and Sport Conference, Jakarta. NOTE – This may be the same as the 1997 May symposium.
Asian Women’s Sports Congress prior to Asian Games.
Association of Directors of Physical Education for Women (ADPEW) renamed the Eastern Society of College Directors of Physical Education for Women.
Associations of Winter Olympic International Federations (AIOWF) second governance review of seven sports identifies a lack of female representation in leadership and term limits as areas of weakness.
At Formula E's debut in the country, a test day including seven female drivers is hosted. The first female team principal in the sport, Susie Wolff, leads her team to three top 10 finishes.
At the 11th World Floorball Championships, a one-day seminar on women in floorball is hosted.
At the 36th Meeting of the Sports Federation Main Committee, a scheme is passed for the promotion of women in sport.
At the 79th Session in Prague, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) amends Rule 31 on women’s participation. Women are now allowed to compete...
At the 81st AGM of the Badminton World Federation (BWF), proposals introducing gender and continental quotas for representation on the BWF Council are approved. It means a minimum 30% of the Council must be female and likewise a minimum 30% male. The 3...
At the African Women in Sport Association (AWISA) Congress in Mauritius, the AWISA Zone 7 structure was established, grouping the Comoros Island,...
At the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi, UAE, the Saudi Arabian women's basketball team win gold - their first appearance at the Games.
Atlanta Plus founded in Paris aimed ‘at eliminating discrimination against women in sports and preventing the exclusion of women from the Olympic...
Australian Olympic Committee Women Sports Leaders Task Force and Australian Sports Commission (ASC) both produce women in sport leadership documents
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) launches its ‘Active Girls Campaign’ – a resource for schools about girls, physical activity, and sport.
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) produces a comprehensive good practice guide and web tool for women and girls in sport called ‘Towards Better...
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) produces a guide for women titled ‘Don’t Stop for Menopause’.
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) produces a practical guide for sporting organisations to develop gender equity plans entitled ‘Towards Gender...
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) produces a report titled ‘An Illusory Image’ about media coverage and the portrayal of women’s sport in the...
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) produces a ‘Strategies for Change: Creating New Opportunities for Girls in Sport’ resource pack to be made...
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) produces guidelines for harassment-free sport.
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) produces harassment-free sport guidelines to address homophobia, sexuality discrimination, women in leadership,...
Australian Sports Commission (ASC) stages a ‘Sport needs more women’ national forum on women and sport, Sydney. Participation across all sectors is...
Australian Womensport and Recreation Association (AWRA) is incorporated.
Bangladesh Women Sport Federation formed from the East Pakistan Women Amateur Sport Association. NOTE – An organisation of the same name was...
Bangladesh Women Sport Leaders Association hosts a workshop titled ‘The Role of Women Leadership in the Olympic Movement’.
Bangladesh Women Sport Leaders Association successfully lobbies the National Olympic Committee to form a Women’s Commission.
Bangladesh Women’s Sport Federation founded. NOTE – An organisation of the same name was founded in 1971.
Banking group Barclays are announced as the first title sponsor of English football's Women's Super League in a multi-million pound partnership running until 2022.
Becomes the first African country to create a Women’s Football Association.
Billie-Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in a ‘comic-opera match’ in front of 30,000 spectators and an estimated television audience of 40 million that...
Boston philanthropist Mary Hemenway founded the all-female Boston Normal School of Gymnastics (BNSG) and appointed Amy Morris Homans as its...
Boston School votes to adopt Ling’s Swedish gymnastics system.
Both men and women participate in the ‘New China’ First National Games.
British women established the Ladies Golf Union ‘with the help of men’. Reports of prizes offered to women golfers in Scotland as early as 1910.
By this date, the National Olympic Committee and the National Women in Sport Association had formed a National Women’s Sport Network in the towns...
By this date, the National Olympic Committee formed a Commission of Women and Sports.
By this date, the National Olympic Committee formed a Women’s Committee.
By this date, the National Olympic Committee had established a Women and Sport Committee and the Directorate General of Sports and Recreation had...
Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) Gender Equity Schools Initiative produces a Resource Kit on...
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) conducts a workshop in Singapore. The Singapore Sport Council (SSC) and its...
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) founded (see 1980).
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) National Coaching School for Women established.
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) National Conference on Women, Sport and Physical Activity, Hamilton. The...
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) National Conference titled ‘Legislating for Social Change’.
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) National Conference titled ‘Provincial/Regional Policy Development and...
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) National Conference titled ‘Sport and Feminism’.
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) National Conference titled ‘Sport and Politics – Playing the Game’.
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) National Conference titled ‘Sport and the Empowerment of Women’.
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) National Conference titled ‘Understanding the System’.
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) National Leadership Seminar on issues affecting women in sport. A booklet was...
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) produces an extensive media guide for athletes and their coaches.
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) produces ‘Harassment in Sport: A Guide to Policies, Procedures and Resources’...
Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport (CAAWS) release a position paper on homophobia in sport titled ‘Seeing the Invisible,...
Canadian Women and Sport recieve a CAD$10,000 donation from the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) to be used by on the "Gender Equity Playbook" project which includes an e-module, a gender equity audit and action-planning services.
Central Sports Federation forms a women’s commission but growing discontent leads to formation of lobby groups until WWII.
Charter of Women’s Rights established.
China re-takes seat on the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Chinese Decree of the Reformation of the School System 'drew heavily on American educational ideas and promoted an enlarged system of physical...
Commercial and advertising campaigns throughout the decade start to feature female athletes in empowered and empowering imagery, rather than stereotypically masculine identities of previous decades. However, other academics argue that these athletes and t
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) established by the United Nations (UN) to monitor women’s situation and promote women’s rights.
Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) meeting includes a ‘Women in Sport Package’, Manchester.
Commonwealth Games Federation first sub-committee on women and sport, London.
Commonwealth Gender Plan of Action.
Commonwealth Heads of Government Ministers (CHOGM) establish a Division of Women and Youth to begin to address gender equity (see 1989).
Commonwealth Heads of Government Ministers (CHOGM) identified issues in sport with an area of recommendation being gender equity in sport and that...
Commonwealth Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs (WAMM) adopt a Plan of Action that had been drafted in 1985. This was renewed in Cyprus in...
Commonwealth Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs (WAMM) met for the first time, before the Third United Nations (UN) Global Conference for...
CONCACAF establishes a dedicated women’s football department and appoints its first head of women’s football, former Canadian international Karina LeBlanc.
CONCACAF launches a women’s football development strategy to grow the game across its 41 members.
Confederation of Sports Women’s Committee ‘More Sport Activity for More Women’ project re-launched (see 1987).
Conference on Athletics and Physical Recreation for Women and Girls, Washington DC. Led to the formation of the Women’s Division of the National...
Congreso Panamericano de Educacion Fisica – Congress on Physical Education, Sports and Recreation for Women, Barquisimeto. 700 participants from 13...
Congress enacts Title IX of the Educational Amendments. The benefits and consequences of this for women and girls in sport and physical education...
Congress passes the Amateur Sports Act, which prohibits gender discrimination in amateur sports and requires the National Olympic Committee to...
Council of Europe Committee for the Development of Sport (CDDS) seminar on Women and Sport, Kaunas.
Council of Europe Committee for the Development of Sport (CDDS) seminar on ‘The protection of children, young people and women in sport: How to...
Council of Europe Committee on Equality between Men and Women meeting, Strasbourg, France. They discuss the 1995 United Nations Global Conference...
Council of Europe Directing Committee for the Development of Sport seminar ‘for Increased Participation of Women in Sport’, Dublin.
Council of Europe establishes a permanent Committee for the Development of Sport (CDDS). European Sport For All Charter adopted.
Council of Europe first formulate and emphasise the concept of ‘Sport for All’ (see 1976).
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly approve a resolution about discrimination against women in sports and especially during the Olympic Games
Countries from North Africa and the Middle East attended the Arabic International Conference on Women and Sports at the University of Alexandria,...
COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus, results in a global pandemic and widespread lockdowns of countries around the planet. It is widely believed to have originated in Wuhan, China, in late-2019. By March 2...
Dartford Physical Training College established; the UK version of Vassar College, USA (see 1865).
Decided upon during the 1981 European Sport Conference in Warsaw, the Soviet Union organized a symposium on ‘sport for women’ in Moscow in December 1982 that was attended by 75 delegates from 17 countries. According to a report from one of the two fema...
Democratic Republic of the Congo launches a National Women and Sport Organisation.
Deputy of Physical Education and Women’s Sports Affairs (see 1989) replaced by a Women’s Sport Office and most of its responsibility for governing...
Despite progress made since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference (see 1994 Sep), Anita DeFrantz (see 1986) ‘agrees to drop...
Donna de Verona (1964 Olympic swimmer) becomes the first woman sports broadcaster on national television, working for the American Broadcasting...
DPR Korea Department of Women and Sport Promotion Central Committee (see 1945) becomes a Section.
DPR Korea establishes a Department of Women and Sport Promotion Central Committee (see 1969).
During these decades, a gymnastics movement for housewives was very popular in Sweden and Norway.
During this decade, British women are reported in the media playing cricket at schools and for teams.
During this decade, competitive female basketball occurs.
During this decade, competitive women’s basketball (Smith College, USA), golf, volleyball and cycling in North America occurs.
During this decade, Finnish female physical educators attend the prominent Society for Outdoor Play Institute in Gothenburg, Sweden. Two of these...
During this decade, Korean women participate in national athletic championships and basketball matches hosted by national newspapers.
During this decade, Latin American women participate in basketball championships.
During this decade, professional women’s bicycle races are supported in velodromes in New York, USA, and London, UK.
During this decade, the workers' sports movement, which was prominent in Norway and Finland, accepted women's competitions in the 1920s and 1930s.
During this decade, there is increasing interaction with the sociology of sport and a growth of published works, including the position of women in...
During this decade, women are given the opportunity for a political voice through formation of unions and the ability to speak at political meetings.
During this period, the Workers’ Sports Federation is more allowing of female involvement in some sports than the National Confederation during the...
During World War II, the All American Girls' Baseball League was formed due in part to men's deployment. It was disbanded soon after the war.
Dusseldorf Conference on developing sport for women.
Eighth Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Sport, Lisbon. The Council of Europe Committee for the Development of Sport (CDDS) press...
Eighth FIFA Women's World Cup, France. Won by the United States of America. Before the tournament begins, the inaugural FIFA Women's Football Convention is hosted in Paris.
Eighth International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Cape Town.
Eighth Summer Olympic Games, Amsterdam. Gymnastics and some athletics events are introduced as sports for women to compete in. Women make up 9.6%...
Eighth Winter Olympic Games, Squaw Valley. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 21.5% of total athletes.
Eighth Women's Rugby World Cup, Ireland. New Zealand beat England in the final.
England Netball, in partnership with UK Sport, open a "Netball Heritage Archive" at the University of Huddersfield’s Heritage Quay. The Archive traces the birth of netball back to 1897. It is part of the Netball Heritage Project launched by England Netbal
England win the Women's World Cup on home soil.
England women’s rugby union team play against New Zealand women at Twickenham, symbolic for being the ‘home’ of men’s rugby, 23 years after their...
English Ladies Golf Association becomes English Women's Golf Association. See 2012.
English Ladies Golf Association formed as branch of the Ladies Golf Union, and is responsible for running amateur golf in England. See 2008.
English Women's Golf Association and English Golf Union merge to form England Golf - the leading organisation for amateur golf in England.
Equal Employment Opportunity Law passed.
Equal Opportunities Act passed.
Equal Pay Act enacted.
Equal Pay Act.
Equal political rights for men and women regardless of marital status introduced.
Equal Status Act extended to include sport.
Establishment of People’s Republic of China after Chinese Communist Party accedes power.
Euromediterranean Conference on Women and Sport in Mediterranean Countries, Antibes-Juan Les Pins. 430 participants from 18 countries attended.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) becomes a corresponding member of the European Women’s Lobby.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) becomes an associate partner of the European Non-Governmental Sports Organisation (ENGSO).
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) board meeting, Athens.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) board meeting, Belfast.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) board meeting, London.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) board meeting, Natanya.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) board meeting, Nicosia.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) confirmed as a free-standing body by the European Sports Conference (ESC). First open meeting hosted by the...
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) first meeting, London. The meeting aimed to clarify its role and potential expansion. One idea was a...
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) have three meetings since Bratislava European Sports Conference (ESC) (see 1993 Sep), and the final meeting...
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Open Meeting and Steering Group meeting, Dubrovnik.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Open Meeting called ‘Women’s Fair Play’.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Open Meeting, Tallinn.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Steering Group meeting and national seminar.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Steering Group meeting, Helsinki.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Steering Group meeting, Oslo.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Steering Group meeting, Prague.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Steering Group meeting, Prague.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Steering Group Meeting, Vienna.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Steering Group meeting, Vilnius.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Steering Group Meeting.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Third Conference ‘Women Sport Partnership’, Athens.
European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) ‘Women in Decision-making positions in sport’ meeting, Vienna.
European Hockey Federation launches the #EquallyAmazing equality campaign. Part of this includes a gender equality charter to be signed by member federations, a new Women in Sports Committee and more women elected to the Executive Board of the organisa...
European Ministerial Conference on Equality between Men and Women, Strasbourg. Resolutions passed and Declaration adopted.
European National Olympic Committee (ENOC) agrees to the creation of a Women and Sport Commission.
European Olympic Committees' (EOC) newly-elected Gender Equality in Sport Commission meets for the first time in Rome. The Commission is chaired by Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) President Sarah Keane.
European Parliament Committee on Women’s Rights adopts and tables a motion for a resolution on Women’s Rights in Sport (see 1987 Oct).
European Parliament Resolution on Women and Sport passed.
European Sport Conference Working Group on Women and Sport (ESCWGWS) meeting, Arnhem.
European Sport Conference Working Group on Women and Sport (ESCWGWS) meeting, Athens.
European Sport Conference Working Group on Women and Sport (ESCWGWS) meeting, Constanta.
European Sport Conference Working Group on Women and Sport (ESCWGWS) meeting, Copenhagen.
European Sport Conference Working Group on Women and Sport (ESCWGWS) meeting, London.
European Sport Conference Working Group on Women and Sport (ESCWGWS) sub-group meet to discuss the format of the Final Report to be submitted to...
European Sports Conference (ESC), Bratislava, Slovakia. The European Sport Conference Working Group on Women and Sport (ESCWGWS) is elected to the...
European Union (EU) Gender Equality Roadmap meeting, Vilnius.
European Union White Paper on Sport.
Fallon Sherrock - only the fifth woman to ever participate at the World Championships - becomes the first woman to to win a World Championship match. In doing so, significant worldwide attention is drawn to her and the sport.
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women Football and Competition Committee meeting, Zurich.
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup, Canada. The USA win the tournament.
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup, USA. This tournament was originally due to be hosted in China but due...
Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) creates a Women in Motorsport Commission. It is chaired by Michèle Mouton (see 1982).
Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) congress.
Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) congress.
Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) congress.
Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) congress.
Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) disbands at the same time as the Olympic Games in Berlin.
Female Athlete Triad Summit, Chicago.
Female physical educators (see 1915, 1917, 1920, 1921) formed the Association of Directors of Physical Education for Women in Colleges and...
Fémina Sport established in Paris, France. Goes on to play a major role in Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) (see 1918; 1921).
Femmes-Mixite-Sports formed.
FIAS launch a campaign called #GameChangers to celebrate female athletes and promote gender equality.
FIFA announces it will double the amount of investment in women's football to $1 billion (£776 million/€898 million) in the 2019-2022 cycle.
FIFA doubles the prize money on offer at the Women's World Cup but faces criticism for the relative difference to money available at the men's World Cup.
Fifth Congreso Panamericano de Educacion Fisica – Congress on Physical Education, Sports and Recreation for Women in Quito. 500 participants from...
Fifth European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Conference, Berlin. 200 delegates from 36 countries meet on the theme of ‘Women, Sport and Innovation’.
Fifth Inter-American Conference of Sport for Girls and Women, Guatemala. A International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and...
Fifth International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Cologne.
Fifth International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference on Women and Sport, Los Angeles, USA, titled ‘Together Stronger: the Future of Sport’....
Fifth International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Congress on Sport Science, Sydney, encourages female researchers and has a seminar on women and...
Fifth meeting of the French-Speaking World Conference of Ministers for Youth and Sports (CONFEJES) Committee responsible for the promotion of women...
Fifth Summer Olympic Games, Stockholm. Aquatic events are introduced as sports for women to compete in. Women make up 2% of total athletes.
Fifth Winter Olympic Games, St Moritz. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 11.5% of total athletes.
Fifth Women's Rugby World Cup, Canada. New Zealand beat England in the final.
Fifth World Conference on Women and Sport, Sydney, Australia organised by the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) and titled ‘Play...
Final Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) congress before it was disbanded.
Finnish Gymnastics and Sports Federation organised the first national sports competition for women.
Finnish Women’s Gymnastics Association (see 1896) splits into national chapters for Finland and Sweden.
Finnish Women’s Sports Association (see 1915) turns into Finnish Women’s Federation of Physical Education.
First American Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) women’s basketball championship.
First American Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) women’s swimming championships.
First American Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) women’s track and field championship. Note – Cahn (1994) states it was 1924.
First Asian Women and Sport Conference, Osaka. It is organised by the Japanese Association Women in Sport (JWS) (see 1998 Dec). Both an Asian Women...
First competitive track meeting held for women in Osaka, Japan.
First Convention on the Equal Rights of Married Women.
First European Sports Conference (ESC) organised by the Austrian Sport Federation.
First European Women's Baseball Championship hosted in Rouen, France, organised by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) and the Confederation of European Baseball (CEB). The home nation won the event.
First executive bureau of the Sport Association of Arab Women (SAAW).
First General Assembly of National Olympic Committees, Rome (see 1979).
First International Olympic Committee (IOC) Regional Seminar on Women and Sport in Europe, Zagreb. 54 women representing 37 European countries attend.
First International Olympic Committee (IOC) working group on women and sport ‘developing nations’ seminar on leadership for women in sport in the...
First meeting of the French-Speaking World Conference of Ministers for Youth and Sports (CONFEJES) Committee responsible for the promotion of women...
First modern Olympic Games, Athens, Greece. Women not allowed to compete.
First national Conference on Women’s Sport, Budapest (see 2000 Dec).
First National Equality in Sport conference titled ‘Taking Action’ hosted to introduce the new ‘Equality Standard: A Framework for Sport’.
First national Forum on Women and Sport, Guatemala. 150 people participated, including representatives from sport federations, national sport...
First National Tennis Championship for women at Wimbledon, England.
First national Women and Sport Commission Conference.
First national women and sport conference titled ‘Equity and Equality in Sports and Society’.
First national Women and Sport Forum titled ‘Women Sport, Reality and Ambition’ in Dubai.
First National Womensports Festival is hosted during the Women’s month celebration.
First national women’s amateur golf championship, Meadow Brook Club, Hempstead, New York.
First national women’s football championship tournament.
First National Women’s Football Championship, Amman.
First national Women’s Games hosted.
First national women’s golf championship.
First national Women’s Olympics, Tokyo, with 1,800 athletes.
First Netball World Championships is hosted in Eastbourne and won by Australia. The event has occurred every four years thereafter.
First Nordic conference on Coaching Top Women Athletes.
First Oceania/Melanesian Women and Sport Workshop, Port Vila.
First official and public basketball tournament for women in Sao Paolo.
First Oriental Olympic Games (pre-cursor to the Asian Games) held in Manila. Unknown if women took part.
First Pan-American Sports Organisation (PASO) Conference on Women and Sport, Montreal.
First Paralympic Games, Rome. Female athletes participate. (see 1989)
First Paralympic Winter Games, Örnsköldsvik.
First Philippine International Congress on Women and Sport, Tagaytay. Philippine Association of Women and Sport formed. Tagaytay Call for Action...
First planned meeting of International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Women and Sport Commission.
First secondary schools open for girls (allowed to attend boys secondary schools in 1920).
First seminar on Muslim women and sport – The Berea Round – takes place, Asia. NOTE – This may be the same as the 2000 Feb meeting in Bahrain.
First South American Women Sport Conference, Cali.
First United Nations (UN) Global Conference for Women, Mexico City. Equality, development, and peace were the central themes. A global review...
First Winter Olympic Games, Chamonix. There is one sport for women to compete in. Women make up 4.3% of total athletes.
First woman (Flor Isava Fonseca) elected to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board
First woman analyst on a Major League Baseball game.
First woman appointed to the Bahrain Supreme Council for Youth and Sports. This appointment was seen as ‘a breakthrough by the women’s movement’.
First woman is elected to be the Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee. It was not until 2008 that another woman in Asia held this...
First Women and Sport Seminar hosted, Chiangmai.
First women's athletics club founded by women. Later, it was to go on and join the male-dominated federation.
First Women's Softball World Championship
First Women's World Championship
First women’s golf tournament.
First women’s gymnastics club in Scandinavia founded in Helsinki
First Women’s Olympic Games, Paris, hosted by Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI)
First Women’s Sport Leadership Academy (WSLA) organised by the Anita White Foundation (AWF) and Females Achieving Brilliance (FAB), supported by...
First World Floorball Championships. Sweden beat Finland in the final. Tournaments have been hosted every two years since, predominantly in Europe.
Fitness and Amateur Sport (FAS), in response to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women Report in 1970, sponsors the first National Conference...
Five Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) regional groups established during this period due to a more structured approach of work.
Following the third meeting of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS), five working groups are formed...
Football Federation Australia celebrates women's football with week of activities, including a shared elite gameweek with men's football, an awards ceremony and various stakeholder engagement opportunities.
For International Women’s Day, Angela Ruggiero (Olympian; IOC member; Vice Chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes’ Commission)...
For the Asian Para Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sareh Javanmardi and Samira Eram are the first Iranian women to be selected as flag-bearers for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Javanmardi holds the distinction of being the first Iranian woman to win...
For the first time, a state school introduced sports for girls among growing calls to lift the ban for women in sports.
For the first time, the RFU will pay a match fee to women's players, and those in the Elite Player Squad receive a squad training fee.
For the first time, women (Flor Isava Fonseca and Pirjo Häggman) are co-opted as members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Former Swiss national team goaltender Florence Schelling becomes the first woman to be named general manager of an elite men's ice hockey club after joining SC Bern.
Fourth and final Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) Women’s World Games, London.
Fourth Arab Forum on Women and Sport, Damascus.
Fourth Congreso Panamericano de Educacion Fisica – Congress on Physical Education, Sports and Recreation for Women, Lima.
Fourth European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Conference ‘Women, Sport and Culture: How to change sports culture’, Helsinki. 222 delegates from 48...
Fourth International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Washington.
Fourth International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference on Women and Sport, Dead Sea. 600 delegates from 116 countries attend. The conference...
Fourth meeting of the French-Speaking World Conference of Ministers for Youth and Sports (CONFEJES) Committee responsible for the promotion of...
Fourth National Games adds four sports for women (track and field, volleyball, basketball and tennis). Further sports added over time.
Fourth Oceania Women and Sport Workshop and International Olympic Committee (IOC) regional seminar, Rarotonga.
Fourth Summer Olympic Games, London. Tennis is reintroduced, and Skating is introduced, as sports for women to compete in. Women make up 1.8% of...
Fourth United Nations (UN) Global Conference for Women, Beijing. The conference allowed for a reflection upon a decade of work since Nairobi (see...
Fourth Winter Olympic Games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Skiing is introduced as a sport for women to compete in. Women make up 12% of total athletes.
Fourth Women's Rugby World Cup, Spain. New Zealand beat England in the final.
Fourth Women’s Sport Leadership Academy (WSLA)
Fourth World Conference on Women and Sport, Kumamoto, Japan, organised by the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG). The legacy was...
French official Stephanie Frappart becomes the first woman to referee a Ligue 1 match. In 2014, she was the first woman to officiate a Ligue 2 match.
French Union of Women’s Gymnastics (UFGF) formed in Lyon.
From liberal feminism (see 1960) developed strands of radical and socialist feminism, each of which 'incorporated some of the arguments from...
From the 2019-2020 season for the next four seasons, the World Rugby Sevens Series circuit will feature six combined men's and women's rounds.
From the foundations of Women’s International Sports Coalition (WISC) (see 1992 Apr), and due to the continued dissatisfaction with the...
Gambian National Olympic Committee and Sports Committee organise a national seminar on women and sport.
Gay Keleeway becomes the first woman to ride a winner at Royal Ascot.
Gender Equality Duty comes into force requiring public bodies to promote equality between men and women.
Gender Equity in the Administration and Governance of National and International Sport Federations seminar, Leeds Metropolitan University.
General Organisation for Youth and Sports had a specialised section on women’s sports. It was to be reorganised in 1990s but women from all...
General Sport Foundation creates a Sport Feminine Office.
German Sports Federation (DSB) decides to officially sponsor women’s football teams. This had a significant impact on the sport over the next...
German Sports Federation (DSB) votes through historic constitution changes including women’s voting, quotas and enhanced opportunities and powers.
Germany's Bibiana Steinhaus becomes the first woman to take charge of a match in a top European league, refereeing a Bundesliga match between Hertha Berlin and Werder Bremen.
Girls gain obligatory right to do physical education. They had been allowed to since 1899.
Girls get the same education as boys in the country.
Global economic depression
Global virtual summit featuring some of the leading Muslim women experts in sport.
GoGirlGo! Is launched and becomes a landmark educational programme for elementary, middle and high school girls to keep them involved in physical activity and to improve the health of sedentary girls. As of 2018, it has reached nearly one million girls.
Golfer Annika Sorenstam becomes the first woman in over fifty years to play in a men’s Professional Golfers' Association Tour event, Texas, USA.
Great Britain Sports Council brings together a small group of interested men and women who produce a statement on women and sport guiding future...
Great Britain Sports Council brought together 65 reps from all areas of sport to discuss the implementation of their Women and Sport Policy (see...
Great Britain Sports Council forms a Women and Sport Media Group.
Great Britain Sports Council magazine dedicates an entire issue to women and sport.
Great Britain Sports Council Policy Working Group (led by Anita White) produce a draft paper on Women and Sport that is disseminated to invited...
Great Britain Sports Council Policy Working Group (see 1990 Dec) produces a second draft paper on Women and Sport and disseminates to Sports...
Great Britain Sports Council Policy Working Group draft policy (see 1991 Feb) considered by GB Sports Council but recommended for further...
Great Britain Sports Council produces a directory of women in the sports media.
Great Britain Sports Council produces an information pack on women and sport to be distributed.
Great Britain Sports Council provides base funding of £105,000 for a Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) National Development Project.
Great Britain Sports Council publishes a Consultation Paper on Women and Sport (see 1991 Sep) that forms the foundations for a future policy (see...
Great Britain Sports Council publishes ‘Sport in the Nineties: New Horizons’. These were four policy statements on Young People, Women, Disabled...
Great Britain Sports Council set up by the Royal Charter as an independent organisation. It launches a Sport For All Campaign.
Great Britain Sports Council splits into the UK Sports Council (now called UK Sport) to focus on developing excellence and the English Sports...
Great Britain Sports Council targets women 20-34 years old in its £10m ‘What’s on Women’ (WOW) Campaign.
Gunilla Lindberg becomes the second woman in the history of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) (after DeFrantz – see 1997) to be elected as...
Guyana Women and Sport Working Group is created by the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports as an advisory body. It has a strong role in...
Halleh Jafari and Fariba Ahadi become the first Iranian women to referee international sitting volleyball matches in France.
Hayley Turner becomes the first woman to outright win a Grade 1 race in Britain. A month later, she won her second Grade 1 race.
Health Education Authority produces guidelines to promote physical activity with young women.
Highly-qualified women given right to vote. All men could though. Law weakened in the 1940s.
Hillary Commission publishes Women and Girls Involvement in Sport and Physical Recreation policy.
Homans (see 1889) invites directors from several New England women’s colleges to meet annually to discuss matters of concern and interest regarding...
Hong Kong Women and Sport Commission host Women and Sport Conference regarding volunteers.
Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission Act, and, Equal Opportunity for Women Act are passed.
IAPESGW publish a continental book series charting the conditions for equality and opportunities for physical activity, sport and dance around the world publicly available. The five-book series accounts for literature and scholarship that is not publis...
Iberoamerican Conference of Women and Sports, Medellin.
Iberoamerican Olympic Academies Association meeting. Five Central and South American countries adopt the Brighton Declaration (see 1994 May).
Ice Hockey UK host the first Women’s Development Camp in Sheffield as they aim to develop a pathway for young female players.
In 1979, IAAF leaders raised the women’s marathon during an IOC Programme Commission meeting for inclusion at the 1984 Games. These efforts were part of a slew of broader advocacy for the women’s marathon in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Advocacy effort...
In Budget 2018, the Government of Canada announced a target to achieve gender equity in sport at every level by 2035. This included an initial commitment of $30 million over three years to support data and research into innovative practices to promote...
In the 1920s and 1930s, 'while American physical educators decried women’s sports and sought to channel their charges’ energy into "Play Days" and...
In the country, ‘a great period of advancement for women in sport disintegrated after 2003’ due to the war.
In the Pre-Commonwealth Games Conference plenary closing session, Manchester, the Princess Royal’s closing speech refers to influential mothers on...
In this decade, physical education became compulsory in public girls’ schools.
In this decade, the Vargas government create Ministries and National Departments to implement many actions related to physical education and sport.
Inaugural UEFA Women's Futsal Euros competition, Portugal. The home nation were joined by Russia, Ukraine and eventual champions, Spain.
Inaugural Women's World Championship in Brisbane, Australia. Won by Heather McKay, an Australian, without dropping a game.
Indian athlete Dutee Chand successfully appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) to overturn her ban by the International Association of...
Indigenous Women’s Sport Summit, Sydney.
Individual performances in women's cricket are added to new honours boards at Lords. The new boards include performances in men's and women's one-day internationals, with centuries and five-wicket hauls listed. Previously, only performances in Tests w...
Informal International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) meeting, Paris.
Informal Pan-American meeting of Women and Sport, Winnipeg.
Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport (CIGEPS) organises an International Conference on Women and Sport, Athens.
Interim Asian Working Group on Women and Sport (AWG) (see 2001 Jun) meeting, Bangkok.
Interim Asian Working Group on Women and Sport (AWG) annual meeting, Seoul. The situation for Women and Sport in Asia is reviewed.
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Development Sub Committee prepares a series of strategies to promote women in all aspects...
International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) Annual Meeting, London.
International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) board meeting, Israel.
International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) Executive Board meeting decides to shift toward...
International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) executive board meeting, Bern.
International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) executive board meeting, Cape Town.
International Black Women in Sport Conference.
International Boxing Association (AIBA) announces changes in policy in favour of gender equality, including increasing its quotas for women in the ring and on its ruling Executive Board.
International Boxing Association (AIBA) hosts first gender equality forum.
International Congress on Women and Sport, Porto. The week before, O Norte Desportivo (a national newspaper) devotes an entire day purely to women...
International Council of Health, Physical Education, Recreation (ICHPER) formed after a variety of health, physical education, and recreation...
International Council of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance (ICHPER-SD) conference includes a Special Interest Group on Women,...
International Council of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance (ICHPERSD) formed (see 1950).
International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education (ICSSPE) formed.
International Cycling Union (UCI) announce measures to improve gender equality as part of a four-year strategic roadmap titled Agenda 2022. A gender equality charter is planned and a gender equality policy for within UCI administration is being developed.
International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations established (see 1982). Eight countries were involved.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) abandons genetic-based screening to an extent (as they leave the final decision with the Organising...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Pan-American Sports Organisation (PASO) joint-led Women in Leadership regional Americas seminar, Miami.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) approves a Consensus with regard to athletes who have changed sex.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Centennial Olympic ‘Congress of Unity’, Paris. ‘Women in sport’ receives noted mentions throughout. However...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Consensus Meeting on sex reassignment and hyperandrogenism in sports (see 2003 Oct; 2013 Oct). This is hosted...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Consensus Statement on the Female Athlete Triad.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) encourages National Olympic Committees to work more consistently to reach women in leadership position...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) established in Paris.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board adopts a Consensus Statement on ‘Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport’ (see 2006 Oct).
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission Consensus Meeting on female hyperandrogenism (see 2003 Oct; 2013 Oct).
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission Consensus Meeting on hyperandrogenism in women athletes (see 2010; 2015 Nov).
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission holds a conference on ‘Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport’ in Lausanne, Switzerland....
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Medical Commission meeting on female reproductive system in sport, Monaco. A statement is adopted stating...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Olympic Session, Lisbon, allows for a small amount of women to compete at the following Olympic Games in 1928.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Regional Seminar for French- and Portuguese-speaking African National Olympic Committees, Abidjan....
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Regional Seminar for North America and the Caribbean National Olympic Committees, Kingston. Resolutions on...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Regional Women and Sport Workshop, Auckland. Women In Sport Oceania (WISO) meet again to continue to develop...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Regional Women and Sport Workshop, Istanbul.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Seminar for African (English Speaking) National Olympic Committees in Addis Ababa, including a workshop in...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-Regional Seminar for Women in Sport, Manama.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-Regional Seminar on Women and Sport, Kuala Lumpur.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-regional seminar ‘Women in the African Olympic Movement’, Dakar.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-regional seminar ‘Women in the African Olympic Movement’, Nairobi.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-regional seminar ‘Women in the Americas Olympic Movement’, La Paz.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-regional seminar ‘Women in the Americas Olympic Movement’, Port of Spain.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-regional seminar ‘Women in the Asian Olympic Movement’, Bangkok.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-regional seminar ‘Women in the Asian Olympic Movement’, Beirut.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-regional seminar ‘Women in the European Olympic Movement’, Lausanne.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-regional seminar ‘Women in the European Olympic Movement’, Rome.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sub-regional seminar ‘Women in the European Olympic Movement’, Warsaw.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Women and Sport Bulletin first published. It is to be produced every three months thereafter.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Women in Leadership regional African seminar, Cairo.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Women in Leadership regional Asian seminar, Kuala Lumpur.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Women in Leadership regional seminar, Guam.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Working Group on Women and Sport (see 1995 Dec) first meeting, Lausanne.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Working Group on Women and Sport annual meeting, Hong Kong.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Working Group on Women and Sport meeting, Casablanca.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) working group on women and sport ‘developing nations’ seminar for women sports journalists from central and...
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) (see 1989) establishes a Women in Sport Commission (see 2004 Nov).
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Women and Sport Commission (see 2002) changes to become the IPC Women and Sport Committee.
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Women and Sport Leadership Summit for English-Speaking African nations, Dar Es Salaam.
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Women and Sport Leadership Summit for French-Speaking African nations, NiameY.
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Women and Sport Summit for the Middle East Region is hosted by the Iranian National Olympic Committee. An...
International Rugby Board (IRB) Women’s Rugby Working Party held in Dublin, with the aim of establishing a strategic plan for developing the women...
International Scientific Conference – ‘Women Sport and Future Science: Affecting and Being Affected’, Alexandria.
International Ski Federation (FIS) announces that it will use gender neutral terms in all of its documents, titles, the FIS website, technical materials and official communications.
International Surfing Association announces there will be an equal number of slots for men and women at the World Surfing Games and the World Junior Championships for 2018. This follows the same initiative being implemented at the 2017 ISA World StandU...
International Symposium called the ‘World of Women – World of Sport’, Frankfurt.
International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) second Women’s International Forum, Doha.
International Women Sports Festival for Peace and Development, Kathmandu.
International Women’s Sports Festival, Sydney. Organised by Womensport Australia, there were events, seminars and workshops for over 800 female...
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Alexandria.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Auckland.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Bisham Abbey.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Doha.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Helsinki.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Jakarta.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Kuala Lumpur.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Kumamoto.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Paris.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Singapore.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Smith College, Northampton.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Sydney.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Annual Meeting, Windhoek.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Informal Meeting, Edmonton.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Informal Meeting, Marrakech.
International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) meeting in Bogota.
International Workshop on Women and Sport, Curacao.
IOC and ASOIF organise the first-ever forum and training programme for women in IFs and National Federations (NFs). More than sixty delegates from 25 NFs and IFs, together with experts and IOC leaders, participated in the two-day programme to explore ways
Islamic Countries’ Women’s Sport Solidarity Council (ICWSSC) approved at the second session of the Iranian National Olympic Committee executive...
Islamic Countries’ Women’s Sports Solidarity Congress convened by the Islamic Countries’ Women’s Sports Solidarity Council (ICWSSC). Its name...
Islamic Federation of Women’s Sport (IFWS) hosts the second International Islamic Countries’ Women’s Sports Solidarity Games, Islamabad.
Islamic Women’s International Mini Games, Islamabad.
It is announced that female and wheelchair athletes in the 2021 Women's and Wheelchair Rugby League World Cups will receive equal participation fees to their male counterparts at the World Cup. It will be the first time that wheelchair athletes and wo...
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) established.
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) establishes an Instructor Training Course (ceases in 1985).
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) expands its structure and is authorised as a member of the Japan Sports Association.
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) first publishes its Bulletin and is involved with the first national meeting for the...
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) implements a commemorative one-year Project for its 40th Anniversary.
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) is granted a Sports Promotion Subsidy and stages a Movement Festival and National...
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) is registered as a research organization by the Science Council of Japan. It also stages...
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) organises first National Congress on Physical Education for Women (still exists) and a...
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) publishes monthly magazine entitled 'Physical Education for Women'.
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) renames its Summer Seminar to the Seminar of Physical Education for School and also...
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) stages a Commemorative Congress on Research for its 25th Anniversary.
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) stages a Commemorative Congress on Research for its 30th Anniversary. An Asian Congress...
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) stages a Commemorative Forum for its 50th Anniversary.
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) stages first Workshop for Training Women Instructors of public physical education.
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) stages the 36th National Congress on Physical Education for Women and also stages the...
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) stages the International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women...
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) starts a project for a Dance Movement Instructors License.
Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) starts to conduct joint-research between itself and member organisations.
Japan Society for Sport and Gender Studies Conference, Osaka.
Japan Women Sport Foundation (see 1926) taken over by Japanese Amateur Athletics Federation.
Japanese Association Women in Sport (JWS) first national Women in Sport symposium titled 'Women in Sport for the 21st Century', Tokyo.
Japanese Association Women in Sport (JWS) founded. This organisation was to have a significant impact on women and sport advocacy in Asia (see 2001...
Japanese Association Women in Sport (JWS) organises a Women and Sport Summit. Results from a national survey are highlighted, there is networking...
Japanese Olympic Committee Executive Board establish a ‘women’s project’ to promote women and sport.
Japanese Society for Sport and Gender Studies established.
Joint International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and Asian Athletic Federation symposium on women and sport, Jakarta....
Joint seminar held by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs and the Australian Sports Commission (ASC...
Joint Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK), Great Britain Sports Council, and British Institute of Sports Coaches 'Women in Coaching Workshop'...
Korean Association for Advancement of Female Sports established, and becomes part of the Association of Korean Athletes.
Korean Association of Physical Education and Sport for Women (KAPESW) (see 1946) restructured after being hindered by Korean War.
Korean Association of Physical Education and Sport for Women (KAPESW) first established. Korean War hampers progress.
Korean Physical Education for Girls and Women (KPEAW) established.
Ladies Golf Club forms in St Andrews, Scotland.
Ladies Lacrosse Association formed.
Ladies Professional Golf Association formed
Lella Lombardi becomes the first and only (correct as of May 2018) woman to win points in a Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix (Barcelona)...
Liberal feminism 'developed as a wave of theory reflecting and influencing women’s experiences at a certain point in history in the 1960s and 1970s...
Liberian Women and Sports Association established.
Lizzie Kelly becomes the first woman in Britain or Ireland to ride a Grade 1 winner over obstacles.
London School Board appoints Madame Bergman-Österberg, who followed the Ling method of gymnastics. This appointment may be regarded as the crucial...
Loughborough University is commissioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for a second time (see 2004) to produce a report on women’s...
Loughborough University is commissioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to produce a report on Women’s Leadership within the IOC...
Mabel Lee is first woman president of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education (APEA) and by 1942-43, four other women...
Mabel Stringer is ‘often credited with being the first British female sports journalist' from this date.
Madame Bergman-Österberg launches her own UK college for the purpose of ‘training gymnastic teachers for new high schools for middle-class girls’.
Many key members from the Women and Sport Movement meet the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Paris...
Maria Teresa de Filippis becomes the first woman to start (and finish) a Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps (see 1975 Apr).
Marit Strømøy becomes the first female powerboat racer to be named Driver of the Year at the International Powerboating Union (UIM) Awards Giving Gala.
Marriage Law and Land Law protect women’s rights within the household and establish women’s right to own property. Education was now widely...
Mauritania National Olympic Committee has ‘women and sport’ as a leading theme in its traditional Olympic Day sports activities.
Meetings of the Women’s Commission of the Congresso Pan Americano de Educacion Fisica were held in Caracas.
Meriel Tufnell becomes the first woman rider to partner a winner in Britain under the rules of racing. This was also the first time women had been allowed to race.
Michèle Mouton finishes second in the World Rally Championship. This performance means she is widely regarded as the most successful post-war...
Ministry of Education publishes report on ‘Women in Physical Culture in Finland’. Women and sport participation and involvement issues feature...
Ministry of Information established which aimed to ‘ensure the provision of sporting activities in all schools for boys and girls and was the...
Ministry of Public Instruction (later retitled Ministry of Education) established physical education as a compulsory element of the school...
Ministry of Sport and Youth, Women Committee Sport Affairs established.
Ministry of Youth and Sports creates a General Directorate for Women. NOTE – A document from the Archive states that this, or another national...
Mixed-gender events in athletics, swimming, table tennis and triathlon are approved for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Monarchy replaced by Republican Political System. New divorce, marriage and adultery laws and recriminations come to effect for men and women (many...
Mrs Laumaille completes one of the first recorded motorsport events; the ‘Marseilles-Nice’. Women competed in other races between major cities in...
Muirfield Golf Club votes to allow women to become members.
Muslim Women’s Sport Foundation (MWSF) founded in the country.
Namibian Women in Sport Association (NAWISA) (unknown exact start-date) second National Seminar (and review of first year of existence), Swakopmund.
National Amateur Athletic Federation (NAAF) established. Women’s Division created in 1923.
National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) celebrates its 100-year anniversary.
National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) Latin American Project started.
National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) very first incarnation formed: the American Association for the Advancement of Physical...
National Association for the Promotion and Development of Women’s Sport established. It hosted its first conference titled ‘Dimensions and the...
National Association for Women and Sport created.
National Association for Women’s Physical Activity and Sport (ANFAPS) organises ‘Development Policies of Sport and Physical Education’ in Sale.
National Association Women, Physical Activity and Sport (ANFAPS) organises a seminar on the access of women to the human right of sport movement.
National Conference on Women and Sport in Colombia. The National Association of Women and Sport is formed with Clemencia Anaya Maya as President.
National Conference on Women and Sport, Prague.
National Federation of Golf creates a national strategy for better participation of girls and women.
National forum for women and sport titled ‘Motivation to Leadership’.
National Girls and Women in Sports Day (Feb 6th).
National Olympic Association Women in Sport Committee (see 2012 Nov) becomes active.
National Olympic Association Women in Sport Committee formalised (see 2013).
National Olympic Committee and national Sports Committee organise a debate entitled ‘The Role of Women in Sport’.
National Olympic Committee appoints a Women in Sport commission.
National Olympic Committee approves a Women’s Sport Committee.
National Olympic Committee create a Women and Sport Committee.
National Olympic Committee creates Women and Sport advisory group.
National Olympic Committee establish a women and sport working group.
National Olympic Committee establish a Women’s Commission.
National Olympic Committee establishes a Commission on Women and Sports. However, it is not until April 1999 that women were appointed to the...
National Olympic Committee establishes a Women and Gender Equality Commission who hold their first meeting.
National Olympic Committee establishes a Women and Sport Committee.
National Olympic Committee establishes a Women and Sport Committee.
National Olympic Committee establishes a Women’s Commission.
National Olympic Committee forms a Women’s Advisory Board that includes the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation...
National Olympic Committee forms a Women’s Sports Committee.
National Olympic Committee hosts first National Conference on Women and Sport in Tirana.
National Olympic Committee hosts the third meeting of the women leaders in sport at its headquarters in Buenos Aires.
National Olympic Committee hosts women in sport conference titled "Education, Policies and Resource Integration" in conjunction with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Sports Policy Network.
National Olympic Committee organised a national seminar on women and sport.
National Olympic Committee organised the Qatar Sport International at which one day was dedicated to a women and sport conference. The main...
National Olympic Committee organises a national seminar on women and sport in Cotonou.
National Olympic Committee organises a Women and Sport seminar. These occur annually until at least 2001.
National Olympic Committee organises first national seminar for women in sport. A Women’s Commission may have been formed from this.
National Olympic Committee organises the first seminar to promote women and sports activities with support from Olympic Solidarity.
National Olympic Committee organises three-day national symposium on Women and Sport in Addis Ababa. A Women’s Committee is formed.
National Olympic Committee plan a campaign for the promotion of women in sports.
National Olympic Committee seminar on women and sports leadership. A Women in Sport Commission may have formed from this event.
National Olympic Committee stages a Women and Sport Day.
National Olympic Committee Women and Sport Commission formed.
National Olympic Committee Women and Sport Commission symposium. Lisbon.
National Olympic Committee Women and Sports Committee organises second seminar to promote women and sports activities.
National Olympic Committee Women in Sport Commission formed out of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Regional Seminar for French- and...
National Olympic Committee Women in Sport Commission initiates a project, workshops and an action plan.
National Olympic Committee workshop ‘The Changing Face of Leadership’, Sydney.
National Olympic Committee ‘opens the Juan Antonio Samaranch Women’s Sports Centre – a sport centre exclusively for Women – which offers courses in...
National Olympic Council hosts a two-day conference in Dublin titled "Empowering Women" which was attended by representatives of various Irish sports federations, delegates from Sport Ireland and the Irish Institute of Sport.
National Organisation for Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women formed
National School Championships for Girls are hosted for netball, volleyball, athletics and badminton.
National sport policy is reviewed and includes women in sport.
National Sports Commission for Top Athletics eliminate distinction between men and women in terms of recognition for high-level disciplines.
National Sports Council creates a Women and Sport Division.
National Sports Council disbands its Women and Sport Committee (see 1953).
National Sports Council establishes a Women and Sport Committee (see 1960).
National Sports Council organises the first Women and Sport Conference called ‘Women and Sport: New Horizons’ and the formation of the Women and...
National Sports Council Women’s Standing Committee convened
National Sports Federation campaign called ‘Sports are good for women – women are good for sports’ is launched, with best practice examples taken...
National Sports Federation set up a women’s commission in the wake of the success of the 1926 Women’s World Games. Women's Sports Federation...
National Sports Seminar on Women and Sport in Northern Ireland entitled ‘Clearing the Hurdles’.
National Women and Sport Committee established.
National Women and Sport Conference.
National Women and Sport National Conference.
National Women in Sport Conference.
National Women in Sport Task Group formed under the Minister of Sport and disbanded upon submission of their report to the Minister.
National Women Sport Committee initially founded (see 2001 Mar).
National Women's Football League established.
National Women’s Championships inaugurated (In 1922, 600 women took part in Berlin).
National Women’s Mountaineering Federation hosts British climbers as part of planned exchange.
National Women’s Sports Association formally established (see 1917).
Negative media coverage and attempts to remove women from international competitions and scholastic events led to many White women leaving track and field. Black women began to fill the void, as did working-class women in industrial sports leagues.
New Civil Code replaces Sharia giving women the right to divorce and inherit, for example.
New education system enacted and men and women received the same education rights.
New federal constitution established equality of sexes by law.
Nigerian Association of Women In Sport (NAWIS) is created.
Nigerian Women's Sports International formed.
Nina Carberry becomes the first woman jumps jockey to win at the highest level in Britain or Ireland.
Ninth European Sport Conference (ESC), Sofia. The European Sport Conference Working Group on Women and Sport (ESCWGWS) is formed after emanating...
Ninth International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Buenos Aires.
Ninth Summer Olympic Games, Los Angeles. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 9% of total athletes.
Ninth Winter Olympic Games, Innsbruck. The Luge is introduced as a sport for women to compete in. Women make up 18.3% of total athletes.
Northern Ireland launches a Women and Sport Campaign, including guides, radio broadcasts and participation days.
Northern Ireland Sex Discrimination Order enacted.
Norwegian Confederation of Sports appoints a Working Group relating to women and sport.
Norwegian Confederation of Sports re-established and appoints different committees, including a Women’s Committee. Declined and disbanded by 1953.
Norwegian Confederation of Sports Women’s Committee (see 1946) ceased due to weakening links with regional networks.
Norwegian Confederation of Sports Women’s Committee project entitled ‘More Sport for More Women’ (see 1987 May).
Norwegian Olympic Committee organises a project titled 'More sport activities for more women'. The project is continued in the mid-1980s by the Confederation of Sports.
NOTE – A separate Women’s Sport Board in Pakistan had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
NOTE – A special committee on women and sport in Iraq had been established by this point but no individual record has been found to confirm more...
NOTE – A special committee on women and sport in Kuwait had been established by this point but no individual record has been found to confirm more...
NOTE – A special committee on women and sport in Morocco had been established by this point but no individual record has been found to confirm more...
NOTE – A special committee on women and sport in Oman had been established by this point but no individual record has been found to confirm more...
NOTE – A special committee on women and sport in Sudan had been established by this point but no individual record has been found to confirm more...
NOTE – A Women and Sport Association in Angola had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
NOTE – A Women and Sport Association in Malawi had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
NOTE – A Women and Sport Association in Mauritius had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
NOTE – A Women and Sport Association in Mozambique had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
NOTE – A Women and Sport Association in Somalia had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
NOTE – A Women and Sport Foundation in Zimbabwe had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
NOTE – A Women's Recreation and Sport Association (AMUREDE) had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm...
NOTE – A Women’s Sport Foundation in Myanmar (Burma) had been established by this point as it won an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Women...
NOTE – An Association for Women in Sport in Sierra Leone had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more...
NOTE – National Olympic Committee creates an Association for Women and the Promotion of Women’s Sport around this time but no individual record has...
NOTE – Sri Lanka Women’s Sport Organisation had been established by at least the end of this year but no individual record has been found to...
NOTE – Switzerland Woman and Sport had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
NOTE – Uganda Women’s Sports Association had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
NOTE – Women and Sport Madagascar had been established by at least the end of this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more...
NOTE – Women and Sport South Africa (WASSA) had been established by at least the end of this year but no individual record has been found to...
NOTE – Women’s Sport Foundation Philippines had been established by this year but no individual record has been found to confirm more details.
Oceania Women in Sport Committee (OWSC) formed but not officially formalised.
Oceania Women in Sports Commission (OWIS) Working Group (see 2004 Aug) meet with Australian Sports Commission (ASC) assistance to develop an action...
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly in Pusan, officially announces that the OCA would establish a Women and Sport Committee (see 2003 Jan).
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) National Seminar on Women and Sport, Lahore.
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) National Seminar on Women and Sport.
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) seminar on women’s leadership, Doha. 39 National Olympic Committees out of the 44 affiliated attend. Plans are...
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Women and Sport Committee created (see 2002 Oct; 2003 Dec).
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Women and Sport Committee meeting, Doha.
Olympic Council of Israel signs a Gender Equality Charter.
Olympic Federation of Ireland launch online gender equality series. The aim of the series is to demonstrate the importance of having gender balance at decision making level and to provide concrete examples of how and why having this balance will benefi...
Olympic Solidarity Funding is increased for the Women and Sport Programme until 2008.
Olympic Solidarity Funding launches a Women and Sport Programme.
Organised under the auspices of the Council of Europe but hosted by the Great Britain Sports Council and the Central Council of Physical Recreation...
Organización Deportiva Suramericana (ODESUR) meeting in Medellin. 16 Central and South American countries adopt the Brighton Declaration (see 1994...
Pan American Judo Confederation establishes a Gender Equality and Equity Commission.
Pan-American Conference on Women and Sport in Cartagena.
Pan-American Sports Organisation (PASO) Women and Sport Working Committee (see 1998 Oct) present first progress report, San Jose.
Pan-American Sports Organisation (PASO) Women and Sport Working Committee established by the PASO General Assembly.
Pan-American Sports Organisation (PASO) Women and Sport Working Committee present second progress report.
PanAmerican Conference on Women and Sport, Mexico City.
Pape (2020) states that 'a reverse discrimination frame was invoked [by the IOC] in response to suggestions to establish a women’s commission, with the Executive Board stating in 1975 that a women’s commission “would be a form of discrimination”, and “...
Pape (2020) states that 'efforts [by the IOC] to discursively redefine the female athlete body continued over the 1970s and 1980s, but rather than represent women as the athletic equals to men, proponents often conceded and endorsed notions of fundamen...
Parliament enacts the Law of Sports to ‘ensure equal opportunities for men and women and for boys and girls to choose and participate in sport,...
Parliament passes a Gender Equality Act which is enforced from 1979.
Partners of the Olympia Project present the 'Charter on Women's Rights in Sport' at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Penultimate Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) congress.
Peru National Olympic Committee organises the first seminar on Pan-American Women in Sport, Lima.
Planning for the first International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference on Women and Sport (see 1996 Oct) occurs.
Portuguese Revolution results in greater democracy and rights for women.
Post-structuralist feminist theory emerges as a further strand of feminism, in particular trying to make sense of difference and not homogenising...
Poupak Basami becomes the first Iranian woman to compete at an International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships.
President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act (1963) and the Civil Rights Act (1964), which included Title VII that banned discrimination in...
President of the socially exclusive International Sporting Club of Monaco gathers an eight-man organising committee to organise a women and sport...
President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports produces a report on Physical Activity and Sport in the Lives of Girls.
Princess Reema bint Bandar bin Sultan named head of the women's section at the General Authority for Sports, which acts as the kingdom's sports ministry.
Proposals are put forward to the General Assembly of Sports in 2003 and 2007 for an earmarked gender quota of 30% and 40% female representation, respectively, but neither of these proposals were successful, despite quotas being introduced in 1990 by th...
Qatar Sport International (QSi) Women in Sport Session, Doha.
Qatar Women Sport Committee (see 2000 Nov) fully established as part of National Olympic Committee.
Research to establish baseline data into current sport activities for females in the Oceania region starts to be conducted by the Australian Sports...
Resolution 40/5 is passed on the elimination of discrimination against women and girls in sport.
Rounders England established.
Royal Automobile Club Motor Sports Association (RACMSA) creates ‘Women in Motorsport’ working group who present findings from a report the...
Samira Asghari becomes the first IOC Member to come from Afghanistan.
Sanctions are introduced for all public liability limited companies to have a minimum of 40% of each sex on their Boards, Councils and committees by 2008. Various studies have identified positive and negative intended and unintended outcomes from this ...
Sandra Baldwin elected as the first female president of the National Olympic Committee in its 106-year history.
Scottish national Strategy for Sport titled ‘Sport 21’ is launched with a particular focus on girls.
Scottish Sports Council and National Coaching Centre organise a ‘Women in Sports Coaching’ seminar.
Scottish Sports Council organises a women and sport conference entitled ‘A Sporting Chance’.
Second Arab Symposium on Women and Sport, Alexandria.
Second Asian Conference on Women and Sport, Doha. The outcome of the conference are the Doha Resolutions. . The conference may have been under the...
Second Canadian National Conference on Women and Sport in Burnaby. It had a multi-disciplinary approach and provided the basis for what would...
Second Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Sport, London. ‘Irish delegation agreed to carry out, at the request of the Directing...
Second Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Symposium on Women’s Football, Los Angeles.
Second Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup, Sweden. The tournament is won by Norway.
Second Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) Women’s World Games, Gothenburg.
Second Gender Equity in Canadian Interuniversity Sport biennial report by Centre for Sport Policy Studies, University of Toronto.
Second International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Paris.
Second International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference on Women and Sport, Paris. A Resolution document is produced containing thirteen points.
Second meeting of the French-Speaking World Conference of Ministers for Youth and Sports (CONFEJES) Committee responsible for the promotion of...
Second Meeting of ‘Women and Sport in Mediterranean Countries’, Tunis.
Second Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR) Conference on Women and Sport, Mendoza.
Second National Association for Women’s Physical Activity and Sport (ANFAPS) National Symposium on Women, Physical Activity and Sport titled ‘Lever...
Second National Congress on Women and Sport.
Second Oceania/Polynesian Women and Sport Workshop, Auckland.
Second United Nations (UN) Convention on the Equal Rights of Married Women.
Second United Nations (UN) Global Conference for Women, Copenhagen. Governments met to assess the progress made since the first World Conference ...
Second Winter Olympic Games, St Moritz. Women make up 5.6% of total athletes.
Second Women and Sport Seminar, sponsored by the National Olympic Committee.
Second Women's Rugby World Cup, Scotland, UK. England beat the USA in the final.
Second Women’s Sport Leadership Academy (WSLA) organised by the Anita White Foundation (AWF) and Females Achieving Brilliance (FAB), supported by...
Second World Conference on Women and Sport, Windhoek, hosted by the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG). Titled ‘Reaching Out for...
Seminar on Women and Sports in Asia staged in coordination with the Olympic Council of Asia and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Beirut.
Seventh Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Sport, Rhodes. The 1975 Sport for All Charter is revised and updated into a new European...
Seventh European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Conference, Vienna. The conference theme was ‘Good governance’.
Seventh International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Tehran.
Seventh Summer Olympic Games, Paris. Fencing is introduced as a sport for women to compete in. Women make up 4.4% of total athletes.
Seventh Winter Olympic Games, Cortina D’Ampezzo. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 17% of total athletes.
Seventh Women's Rugby World Cup, France. England beat Canada in the final.
Seventh World Conference on Women and Sport, Gaborone, organised by the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) titled ‘Determine the Future, Be Part of the Change’.
Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations are passed, making it illegal for employers to discriminate against transpeople.
Sex Discrimination Act passed making it illegal to discriminate against women in work, education and training. The Equal Opportunities Commission...
Sex Discrimination Act passed.
Sex Discrimination Act passed.
Short of any commitment, the final statement of the 1973 Olympic Congress in Varna, Bulgaria, stated that “The IOC, the International Federations and the National Olympic Committees should consider the inclusion of women in their membership and commiss...
Shot Putter Valentina Cioltan is first woman to be caught for doping after steroids are found in tests taken from the European Cup Finals.
Singapore Sports Council (SSC) Women and Sports Working Group meet with some of the members of the International Working Group on Women and Sport ...
Sixth European Group on Women and Sport (EWS) Conference, Paris, titled ‘Women Sport and Democracy: Sport a Challenge for Women, Women a Challenge...
Sixth International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, Tokyo.
Sixth meeting of the French-Speaking World Conference of Ministers for Youth and Sports (CONFEJES) Committee responsible for the promotion of women...
Sixth Summer Olympic Games, Antwerp. Women make up 2.4% of total athletes.
Sixth Winter Olympic Games, Oslo. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 15.7% of total athletes.
Sixth Women's Rugby World Cup, England. New Zealand beat England in the final.
Sixth Women’s Sport Leadership Academy (WSLA) organised by the Anita White Foundation (AWF) and Females Achieving Brilliance (FAB), supported by the University of Chichester. Thirty-four participants from seventeen countries attend the residential week.
Sixth World Conference on Women and Sport, Helsinki, organised by the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) titled ‘Lead the Change,...
Somalian National Olympic Committee holds national seminar entitled ‘Women’s Participation in Sport’.
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications ‘signs a landmark US$88 million global sponsorship deal with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour, making...
South Africa Sports Commission Women and Sport Seminar adopts 13 resolutions, Technikon Pretoria.
South African sprinter, Caster Semenya, loses her appeal against the IAAF’s planned eligibility regulations for the female classification for athletes with differences of sex development. In July 2018, Human Rights Watch had publicly condemne...
South African Women Sport and Recreation (SAWSAR) becomes a sub-component in the sport structure.
Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) formed.
Sport Association of Arab Women (SAAW) organise the first course on sport administration, Cairo.
Sport Association of Arab Women (SAAW) organises First Arab Forum on Women and Sport. Eleven countries attend.
Sport Association of Arab Women (SAAW) organises the second course on Women and Sport Management, Alexandria.
Sport Association of Arab Women (SAAW) sets the 18th of February as an ‘Arab Women and Sport Day’.
Sport Canada Women and Sport Policy published.
Sport England and Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) launch the National Action Plan for Women’s and Girls’ Sport and Physical Activity.
Sport England commissions research on women-friendly sports facilities.
Sport England introduce ‘The Equality Standard: A Framework for Sport’. It develops from work on the ‘Race Standard’ and is adopted by all home...
Sport England invest £1.7m over two years in the UK Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF).
Sport England launches a £10m Active Women fund aimed at funding projects designed to encourage mothers and low income women to take up sport.
Sport England, the Government Women’s Unit, and the Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) stage a one-day seminar attended by 200 delegates from...
Sport for All Association formed.
Sports 4 Life is cofounded by the Women’s Sports Foundation and espnW. It was created based on the knowledge that 'while sports participation offers tremendous life-long benefits – from improved physical health and self-esteem, to better grades in scho...
Sports Federation accepts a project entitled ‘Women and Sport in the 1990s’ as part of its official strategies for the year.
Sports Federation organises nearly 100 courses related to women and sport leadership at various levels.
Sports Federation produces a booklet titled ‘Our Chairman is a Woman’, focusing on women in leadership roles and managing sports organisations.
Sports Illustrated magazine names Billie Jean King (tennis) as its first Sportswoman of the Year.
Sports Illustrated magazine names this year as ‘The Year of the Woman in Sport’.
Sports journalist, Dagim Zinabu Tekle, is announced as the first man to win the IOC Women and Sport World Trophy.
SportScotland and the UK Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) collaborate on a series of women and sport factsheets, incorporating fifteen...
SportScotland and Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) launch ‘Making Women and Girls More Active: A good practice guide’.
SportScotland commissions research on women in sport leadership and finds significant inequalities and suggestions of complacency.
SportScotland launches a National Strategy on Women, Girls and Sport.
SportScotland produces a research report exploring barriers regarding participation in sport and physical activity by girls.
Sportswomen represented on the board of the central sports union (DIF).
Statutory maternity pay is introduced.
Supreme Committee of Women and Sport formed by Egyptian Minister of Youth.
Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) sponsors a Sub-Regional ‘Women in Sport’ Symposium in Lome. The African Women in Sport Association ...
Supreme Council for Women established in Bahrain to assist the government in drawing up policies on women’s issues and to encourage women’s...
Swedish gymnastics introduced at Cheltenham Ladies’ College. The female principal was against competitive activity.
Taiwan Association for Women and Sport formed.
Tangentially following from discussions in 1963 in the Council of Europe, the Swedish government offered to organize a conference on ‘Sport and Women’ in Stockholm in October 1967. In November, 1966, a study group had met and information was disseminat...
Tenth European Sport Conference (ESC), Oslo. ESC agrees to the recommendations of the Working Group on Women and Sport (ESCWGWS) (see 1989 Oct) and...
Tenth Summer Olympic Games, Berlin. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 8.3% of total athletes.
Tenth Winter Olympic Games, Grenoble. No new events introduced for women. Women make up 18.2% of total athletes.
Thailand Women and Sport Association and national Women and Sport Commission both established.
The 11th Islamic Federation of Women Sports (IFWS) General Assembly introduces the Effort Award to recognise and appreciate the special services...
The 123rd International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session in Durban, declared ‘that the promotion of women and gender equality within the Olympic...
The 20th Session of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) General Assembly passes important resolutions and mechanisms on women and sport.
The 49th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW), New York, USA, looks at two thematic issues: a Review of the...
The 4th national Women World Conference Committee sponsors a study on women’s leisure and sports.
The 58th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopts ‘Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace’...
The Abortion Act gives women abortion rights with certain conditions.
The Advisory Council on the Status of Women publishes ‘Fair Ball: Towards Sex Equality in Canadian Sport’.
The African Games are launched.
The African Sports Confederation of Disabled (ASCOD) launches a policy on disabled women’s and girls’ participation in sport, with a particular...
The African Women and Sport Conference is hosted in Gaborone.
The All England Club announces that the prize money for winning the Wimbledon Championships will be equal for men and women.
The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation Division for Girls and Women’s Sports (AAHPERDGWS) and the National Association...
The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation Division for Girls and Women’s Sports (AAHPERDGWS) and the National Association...
The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation Division for Girls and Women’s Sports (AAHPERDGWS) creates within its sub...
The American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education National Section on Girls’ and Women’s Sports (APEANSGWS) becomes the American...
The American Physical Education Association (APEA) forms a Committee on Women’s Athletics to draft standardised, separate rules for women’s...
The Anita White Foundation is officially launched at the University of Chichester.
The AQAFSAP changes its name to become Égale Action (equality through sports activity).
The Argentine Olympic Committee's (COA) women in sport commission hosts its first meeting of the year and its main objective is to create a similar women's group within each sport.
The Asian Games are launched.
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) (see 1972) becomes an autonomous governing body for women’s intercollegiate sport ...
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) (see 1979) ceases operations as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)...
The Association for Women and Sport is formed.
The Association of Directors of Physical Education for Women in Colleges and Universities (see 1924) had, by this year, been renamed to the...
The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) (see 1965) is established during the Constitutive General Assembly in San Juan.
The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and Sport Industry Australia host a National Forum on Pregnancy in Sport, Sydney. A set of guidelines were...
The Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed) clarifies its rules on female participation. As Boccia does not split its individual events into men's and women's competitions, with the rules applying to their team and pairs competitions, each team...
The Brooklands Automobile Racing Club (BARC) (see 1908) accepts women’s entries for its meetings and hosts its first women-only event (see 1934;...
The Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) collapses, reportedly due to an “economically unstable” business model.
The Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) organises the ‘first’ international conference on women and sport. 160+ delegates from nearly...
The Central Sports Federation Women's Sport Committee (see 1948) is renamed the Women's Activity Group. It was not until the 1990s that further...
The Centre for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto publishes ‘The London 2012 Olympics: A Gender Equality Audit’, identifying and...
The Centre for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto publishes ‘The Sochi 2014 Olympics: A Gender Equality Audit’, identifying and...
The Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) organised the fifth edition of the International Women and Sport Conference. The theme of the Conference was "Women: The Makers of Sustainable Development in Sport" and topics included women's empowerment an...
The Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (CIAW) (see 1967) becomes the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) to...
The Commonwealth Sports Ministers Conference focuses on drug-free sport, women in sport and hosting major events, Athens.
The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport creates a new women in motorsport commission
The Confederation of Sports establishes a central Women’s Committee after progress at a previous seminar (see 1984 Nov).
The Confederation of Sports general meeting agrees to continue the Women’s Committee project entitled ‘More Sport for More Women’ (see 1985), and...
The Confederation of Sports training division organises a seminar on women and sport in Gol.
The Council of Arab Ministers of Youth and Sport endorse the Brighton Declaration (see 1994 May) and approve the creation and launch of the Sports...
The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly passes a recommendation on Discrimination Against Women and Girls in Sport. This also strengthens the...
The Council of Europe passes a Resolution on the prevention of sexual harassment and abuse of women, young people and children in sport at a...
The country participates in its first full (due to only competing in one event in 1952) Olympics in Los Angeles, USA, winning 15 gold medals.
The country re-takes its seat at the United Nations (UN); National sports competitions restored in this year also.
The country reorganises its Women and Sports Commission.
The country stages its first professional boxing bout which included its first officially licensed female boxer.
The country stages its first women's international rugby union match.
The decision is made to appoint an Advisor to the Commonwealth Secretary-General on women and development.
The Department of Sports and Recreation creates the Third Millennium Initiative Program for Women Sports for the development of women athletes in...
The Directorate of Women’s Sports Affairs (see 1985) becomes the Deputy of Physical Education and Women’s Sports Affairs under the umbrella...
The directors from several New England women’s colleges (see 1910) organise to become the Association of Directors of Physical Education for Women ...
The ECB secures £1.2m of Lottery funding to develop a network of 2,000 volunteer female coaches and mentors over the next four years.
The English Sports Council (see 1997) rebrands itself to be called Sport England.
The English Women's Football Association and the Football Association (FA) merge. Critics of the merger claim this enabled men to have greater control over the women's game.
The Equal Opportunities Commission proposes amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act (see 1975 Dec) which would further women’s rights in some...
The Equal Opportunities for Men and Women on the Appointment of Members of certain Executive Committees or Governing Bodies Act is passed.
The Equal Opportunities for Men and Women on the Appointment of Members of Public Committees and Commissions Act is introduced.
The Equal Treatment Act is passed.
The Equity Project is launched by the Women's Sports Foundation. Powered by WSF, it is 'a movement of individuals and organizations that aims to impact participation, policy, representation and leadership in sports in sustainable and measurable ways. T...
The European Olympic Committees' (EOC) revised Articles of Association are approved at the organisation's General Assembly, including an amendment to ensure gender equality is embedded in line with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Article...
The European Parliament passes a Resolution adopted on Women and Sport. The original report (see 2002) was drawn up by the Committee on Women’s...
The European Parliament Resolution on Women and Sport is drafted (see 2003 Jun).
The European Union Work Plan for Sport 2017-2020 is published. Two areas of focus for the plan are good governance and gender equality, with two expert groups being formed on integrity and skills, and workforce development in sport. Previously, a ‘good...
The European Youth Sport Conference—a loose forum of exchange between the youth departments of the Western European national sport associations founded in 1971—organized a seminar on ‘the participation of girls and women in sport organizations’...
The FASNOC Women in Sports Commission organises a sports clinic for young girls in Suva.
The Fédération des Sociétés Féminines Sportives de France (FSFSF) is officially founded by two men, one of whom founded Fémina-Sport (see 1911) who...
The Federation Internationale Catholique d’Education Physique (FICEP) forms a Women’s Commission and its first President was Marie-Therese Eyquem –...
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) launches the first ever coordinated women's international match calendar.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup is hosted in China with FIFA Workshops on Women’s football staged in...
The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) produces dedicated women in motorsport publications.
The Fédération Internationale de Moto (FIM) Women’s Commission is created.
The Fédération Internationale de Moto (FIM) Women’s Motocross Rallies World Cup is created.
The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Board of Administration approves a proposal from the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Council to...
The fifth meeting of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS), Berlin. Key themes were proposed by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for Physical Education and Sport and included the access to sport as a f...
The FIH forms a Women in Sports Committee. The aims of the Committee include developing and implementing an FIH Women in Sport strategy, overseeing gender equality in the Executive Board and recommending changes, establish contacts with the people resp...
The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (FASANOC) Women in Sports Commission hosts a workshop in partnership with the Fiji Disabled People’s Federation.
The first Agitos Women in Sport Leadership workshop in Ottawa, Canada, is attended by 30 women from 12 countries in the Americas region and led by the National Paralympic Committees of Canada and Peru.
The first intercollegiate basketball game between University of California and Stanford played in Berkeley.
The first meeting for a planned international women and sport conference (see 1994 May) in the UK. Planning meetings with an international...
The first meeting of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS) takes place in Paris.
The first national championship of athletics for women was held between the three major Parisian women’s sport clubs.
The first national multiracial physical education committee for girls was formed, but, academic subjects still took precedence.
The first Sport Education Institute for young women is established in Aleppo. The first Sport Education Institute for young men was established in...
The first white paper on sport is presented, with a large focus on inclusion.
The first Women’s Cricket World Cup is hosted and won by England.
The first World Conference on Women and Sport, Brighton, UK. It was titled ‘Women, Sport, and the Challenge of Change’, and was funded by the Great...
The first-ever all-female umpiring panel feature at an ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier, Scotland, UK.
The Flemish Community set up many national campaigns for women, including greater integration into sports.
The Football Association (FA) bans women from competing on FA-affiliated grounds, effectively halting women’s football that was being played in...
The Football Association (FA) Women’s Super League is established in the country.
The founding congress for Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in Paris of many national women and sport groups due to the successful...
The Fourth Asian Conference on Women and Sport coincides with the Women Sports and Fitness Foundation Malaysia (WSFFM) international conference....
The fourth meeting of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS), Athens. Sport and Women are one of...
The French-Speaking World Conference of Ministers for Youth and Sports (CONFEJES) is founded.
The General Assembly of International Sports Federations (formed from events in 1967) is replaced by the General Association of International...
The General Assembly of National Associations adopts the Brighton Declaration and an interim committee was given a mandate to draw up a...
The General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) (see 1976), in collaboration with the Associations of Summer and Winter Olympic...
The Global Centre for Social Change through Women’s Leadership and Sport is founded at Kennesaw State University, Georgia.
The government publishes (although written by H. Lenskyj) an extensive research bibliography on ‘Women, Sport and Physical Activity’. A second...
The Great Britain Sports Council aims to attract more women into active leisure pursuits in its ‘Sport in the Community: The Next Ten Years’...
The Great Britain Sports Council and the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) launch an inquiry in to the lack of women at the top level...
The Hellenic Union for Promoting Women in Sport and Physical Activity is formed.
The Higher Girls’ School Law was to significantly increase the number of girls’ secondary schools until 1940. The influx of European women from...
The Hong Kong Sports Federation and National Olympic Committee establishes a Women and Sport Commission.
The IAAF Council announces approved eligibility rules that require the concentration of testosterone in an athlete to be less than five nanomoles per litre continuously for a period of at least 12 months prior to being declared eligible. As such, trans...
The inaugual World Girls' Ice Hockey Weekend is organised. Its aim is getting more young girls into the sport.
The Indian Ministry of Sport is established and work to aid the promotion of women’s sport.
The Indonesian Association in Physical Education and Sports for Girls and Women (PERWOSI) is formed.
The Intercollegiate Athletic Association (later renamed National Collegiate Athletic Association - NCAA) is formed in part due to reaction over the...
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) creates a Female Representation Working Group.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) launches ‘The Year of Women in Athletics’.
The International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) holds a study week in partnership with the Sultan...
The International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) turns its attention toward understanding the barriers...
The International Association of Women Sports Photographers is established
The International Congress on Physical Education for Girls and Women, Copenhagen is hosted and the International Association of Physical Education...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) integrates women’s cricket. In doing so, an ICC Women’s Committee is established to replace the...
The International Federation of Muaythai Amateur agreed that it will be known as the International Federation of Muaythai Associations (IFMA). Part of this change included a redesign of the logo, which previously only displayed a male athlete but has n...
The International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations joins the International Hockey Federation.
The International Football Institute at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston, hosts the first-ever international academic...
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) hosts a forum in St Petersburg designed to encourage female leadership as part of the organisation's efforts to improve gender balance.
The International Handball Federation organises a symposium on Women and Handball in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) introduces the first ever club competition for women’s ice hockey in Europe.
The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) organises the first all-women development camp in Viermäki.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announces the proposal for quotas (see 1995 Sep) to be introduced for women in leadership positions.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board agrees to recommend to the next General Meeting that it ‘intensify without delay the...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) launches the Women and Sport Awards consisting of six trophies: one at the world level and one each for...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) ‘Olympic Message’ magazine is devoted to women and sport.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) General Assembly adopt a gender equity policy.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is formed as the sole governing body for the Paralympic Movement, partly in response to the ...
The International Ski Federation (FIS) Council give unanimous approval to a proposal to change its composition and include a minimum of three women.
The International Strategy working group from the first World Conference on Women and Sport (see 1994 May) meet in Ottawa, Canada, and become the...
The International Teqball Federation (FITEQ) commits to maintaining its mixed gender status, making it one of the few sports in the world where women and men compete on an equal playing field.
The International Triathlon Union forms a Women’s Commission and introduces principles of equality and progressiveness.
The International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) Oceania representative and Australian Sports Commission (ASC) representatives host a...
The IOC adopts sexual chromatin testing to verify the sex of women athletes from 1967 until 1991.
The IOC and the Zambian NOC host a forum aimed at training women working in African NOCs and NFs to excel as leaders in sports. Sixty-five attendees from 42 countries attended.
The IOC sets a minimum target of 30% for women’s representation in NOC and IF governing bodies by 2020, and to adopt accompanying measures that will help them to reach this goal.
The IPC approve changes that could allow the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games to be the first to have gender parity in medal events.
The Irish State Minister, Jim Tunney, proposed a motion calling for the greater involvement of women in sport on the occasion of the Second Conference of European Ministers for Sport in London. As a result, Ireland was entrusted with the organization o...
The Islamic Federation of Women’s Sport (IFWS) (see 1991 Oct) hosts the International Islamic Countries’ Women’s Sports Solidarity Games in Tehran.
The Islamic Federation of Women’s Sport (IFWS) hosts the fourth Islamic Countries’ Women’s World Games in Tehran.
The Islamic Federation of Women’s Sport (IFWS) hosts the third Islamic Countries’ Women’s World Games, Tehran.
The Israeli Women’s Sports Foundation is founded.
The IWF changes its rules on clothing to allow the hijab, enabling more Muslim women the opportunity to lift.
The IWG rebrands itself to signify the changeover from the Botswanan to the New Zealand secretariat ahead of the IWG World Conference on Women and Sport in Auckland in 2022. A new four-year strategic plan and updated global executive are also announced.
The King drafts new laws and legislation after Franco dies. Greater opportunities for women follow.
The Korean Physical Education for Girls and Women (KPEAW) stages the Seoul Symposium. Ten Asian countries are invited to discuss physical education...
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) and the Ladies European Tour (LET) unite in a joint venture partnership to advance women's professional golf in Europe and around the world. The partnership aims to immediately increase playing opportunit...
The Law of Property Act allows both husband and wife to inherit property equally.
The Lithuanian Women in Sport Association is established.
The Local Government Act Section 28 amendment is passed which inhibits intentional promotion of homosexuality by local authorities and thus...
The Local Government Training Board pilots a management development programme for women managers in leisure and recreation.
The Mid-West Society of College Directors of Physical Education for Women is established.
The Minister for Sports establishes a women and sports committee, which then set up a sports day for women (March).
The Ministry of Human Resource Development is set up with the objective of integrating efforts for development of human potential in the areas of...
The Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs creates a year-long programme ‘Celebrating Women and Girls in Sport’ to create greater public awareness of...
The Ministry of Sport hosts the second Meeting on Women, Sport and the Mediterranean Cultures in Safakis.
The most deadly crash in motor-racing history occurred at Le Mans. Even though none of the women taking part in this race were involved in the...
The national Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) launch the Gender Equity Schools Initiative.
The National Association for Women and Sport in Chad is established.
The National Association for Women in Sport organises a grand sport festival for women from all over the country.
The National Association for Women’s Physical Activity and Sport (ANFAPS) established with the aim of ‘disseminating PE as an integral part of...
The National Association of Physical Education and Scouting is the first organisation responsible for all physical education and sports affairs for...
The National Association of Physical Education for College Women (NAPECW) (see 1946) approves the ‘project’ of an international congress for...
The National Association of Physical Education for College Women (NAPECW) (see 1946) joins with the National College Physical Education Association...
The National Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee contributed to a Women in Sport promotion event at the Wan Smolbag Theatre in Port Vila, attended by 200 women and girls.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) approves the creation of the Women’s NBA (WNBA) which starts the following year.
The National Committee of Australian Sports Ministers, through its special Sub-Committee on Women in Sport in Recreation develops the ‘Australian...
The national Gymnastics and Sports Association sets up a Commission of Women’s Sports. The national Sports Federation produced half-year documents...
The National Olympic Association forms a Women and Sport Working Group to help forge stronger relationships with women and sport groups in the lead...
The National Olympic Committee adopt the article, ‘Promote and develop women’s sport in China’ into the newly modified Olympic Committee Charter.
The National Olympic Committee creates a Working Group for Women and Sport.
The National Olympic Committee establishes a Women and Sport Committee.
The National Olympic Committee organises a 'Women and the Olympics Sport' Forum.
The National Organisation for Women in Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation (NOWSPAR) forms the Women in Sport Leadership Network in partnership...
The National Organisation for Women in Sport, Physical Activity and Recreation (NOWSPAR) is established.
The National Sports Commission establishes a Women’s Sport Promotion Unit.
The National Sports Council (SSC) organises a National Sports Carnival for women .
The national Sports Federation hosts an international conference titled ‘Promoting Equality in Sport – Towards Sydney 2010’.
The National Sports Federation organises a seminar entitled ‘More Women in Sport Organisations’. A newsletter (‘Feminale’) is produced twice a year...
The national Strategy Framework for Women and Girls Sport is launched by UK Sport.
The national Women’s Tennis Association formed and soon merges with the national Lawn Tennis Association. The US Tennis Open equalised its awards...
The New Agenda Conference, Washington D.C., is organised by the Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) with involvement from National Association for...
The New Leaders Sport Leadership Programme begins. Occuring over one year, it consists of three workshops and a closing conference. Thirty male and female sport professionals took part. The programme was supported by the Finnish Olympic Committee, IOC...
The New York Times publishes a series of articles on "roster management" in American universities. In doing this, universities demonstrated compliance with part of Title IX at the expense of female athletes. For example, one female athlete participati...
The NOC SLE Women in Sport Commission host a two-day Women and Girls Empowerment Workshop in Makeni.
The Norwegian Olympic Committee first introduces a gender quota for electing representatives to Councils, Boards, and committees within the NOC, regional sporting bodies, and sport federations. Whilst the election of women was encouraged, no representatio
The Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) Equity Commission hosts a two-day equality workshop in Fiji. Inclusiveness, equal access and gender equality in sports management and programmes were among the main topics discussed at the event.
The Oceania Olympic Committee establishes the Oceania Women in Sports Commission (OWIS), Palau (see 2003 Jul; 2004 Aug).
The Olympic Charter is ‘amended to include an explicit reference to the need for work on women and sport’. This came from recommendations of the...
The Olympic Committee of Kosovo (KOC) marked the World Day of Sports and Environment with events aimed at promoting the role of women in sport.
The Olympic Committee of Kosovo (OCK) hosts its first Leading Sports Women Forum in Prishtina. It was attended by Kosovo's Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport as well as dozens of leading sportswomen from National Federations in Kosovo, the OCK Execut...
The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) organises a Women and Sport Seminar in Kuala Lumpur under the theme "Empowering Women Leadership in Sport". Over 80 people attended, the majority of these being women.
The Pakistan Women’s Action Forum (est. 1981) ‘discussed the possible opportunities for Pakistani females to compete in international sports’.
The Pan-American Games are launched.
The Pan-Arab Games are launched.
The Physical Education Association of Ireland sets up a sub-Committee which organises a National Forum on Girls, Women and Sport.
The Pilgrim Hikes challenged the female fragility argument that was used to limit their involvement in society.
The prestigious Augusta National Golf Club allows women members.
The prestigious Royal and Ancient St Andrews Golf Club allows women members.
The Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorisation Act is passed.
The Qatar royal family are lobbied on the issue of women’s participation and respond by allowing the Doha Grand Prix to be staged at the Khalifa...
The Qualified Sports Act includes an anti-discrimination provision ‘to ensure that sportswomen receive a sport stipend in the full amount for the...
The Quebec Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and Physical Activity (AQAFSAP) is formed. (see Sep 2002)
The quota rules (see 1988) by the NOC change to become more radical, as they are extended to sports clubs that sit under the NOC, and there is an introduction of a requirement for a minimum of two representatives of each gender to be represented on ea...
The Royal and Ancient and Ladies Golf Union merge. Very little information about the merger is publicly available.
The second edition of the Bahrain Women's Day Sportsfest is hosted in Riffa. The 10-day festival is organised by the Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) Women’s Sports Committee and saw seven sports played.
The second meeting of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS) takes place in Moscow.
The sixth meeting of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS), Kazan. The result of the meeting is the Kazan Action Plan which includes the acknowledgement that the empowerment of women and girls should be ce...
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) votes for gender equity on its Board, among a number of other constitutional changes. Four of the eight elected members must now be women, with at least one woman in one of the three...
The Sports Authority organised a National Sport Festival for Women.
The Sports Confederation adopts the Working Group for Equality in Sport ‘Plan for Equality’ at its General Assembly.
The Sports Confederation hosts a ‘Forum for Women’, whereby regional and district women sport leaders discussed the future for women and sport.
The Sports Council (Consejo Superior de Deportes) highlights its research on the situation and participation of women in sport in the country.
The Sports Council for Northern Ireland adopts a Women in Sport Policy (based on the Brighton Declaration – see 1994 May).
The Sports Council for Wales establishes a Women, Girls and Sport Working Group to address issues surrounding the provision of sporting...
The Sports Council incorporates gender equity into its guiding principles.
The Sports Federation announces equal opportunities for women as part of its policy. It was dropped in 1998 for a number of reasons, and then was...
The Sports Federation gives support to a campaign called ‘Sports Together: For equal conditions for men and women, boys and girls’.
The structure of the Japan Association for Physical Education for Women (JAPEW) is expanded and authorised. Ms Chiyoe Matsumoto is appointed...
The study group who helped organise the Sport and Women conference in Sweden, 1967 (see 1967), continued to collect data and met for the second time in Strasbourg in March 1969 ahead of another conference, this time in Luxembourg in July, 1969. It ass...
The Sydney Scoreboard is officially published as the legacy of the fifth World Conference on Women and Sport, Sydney, Australia organised by the...
The Syrian Arab Football Association hosts its first Forum on Women’s Football.
The taskforce that would later become the African Women in Sport Association (AWISA) organise a constitutional seminar to draft a constitution.
The Telegraph, a national UK newspaper, announces the launch of Telegraph Women’s Sport – a major new investment and commitment to women’s sport coverage.
The third meeting of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport (MINEPS), Punta del Este.
The threat of a legal challenge over naming rights by the Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) is made toward Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK)....
The UAE are represented by women for the first time in the history of the Asian Boxing Confederation (ASBC) Elite Asian Confederation Boxing Championships, Bangkok, Thailand.
The UK government adopt the Brighton Declaration (see 1994 May). However, it is stated that ‘while the UK’s leadership on gender equity policy was...
The UK Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) Commission on the Future of Women’s Sport (see 2008) report reveals the scarcity of women...
The UK Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) establishes an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women in Sport.
The UK Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) is renamed as Women In Sport (WiS) which is marked with a national women and sport conference...
The UK Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) launches the Commission on the Future of Women’s Sport, chaired by Paralympian Dame Tanni Grey...
The UK Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) launches the first UK national strategy to increase women’s participation in physical activity...
The UK Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) partners with the Fitness Industry Association to launch ‘Sweat in the City’ in order to...
The UK Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) publishes ‘It’s Time’ – findings from a research study that drew widespread attention to issues...
The Ukraine Woman and Sport Association is launched
The United Nations (UN) Division for the Advancement of Women, WomenSport International (WSI) and International Working Group on Women and Sport ...
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopts resolution 58/5: ‘sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace’. It also...
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly publishes a five-year Review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (Beijing + 5), New...
The United Nations (UN) Inter-Agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace (see 2002 Jul) publishes a report titled ‘Sport as a tool for...
The United Nations (UN) International Year for Women (IWY).
The United Nations (UN) Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to combine...
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) ‘country offices and national associations of the Fédération Internationale de Football...
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Centre for Islam and Pluralism stage a South-East Asia regional...
The United States women's team file a gender discrimination lawsuit against US Soccer in a row over equal pay.
The US Department for Education establishes the Commission on Opportunity in Athetics. Its aim was to review the standards for measuring equal opportunity in sport under Title IX and make recommendations to change the law. A prominent backlash to the C...
The US Women’s football team wins the first Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Championship (61 years after the...
The USA Women’s Rugby team wins the first ever Rugby Union World Cup in Wales.
The Vanuatu Women in Sport Commission (VanWIS) hosts women's sport leadership workshops as part of its "Week of the Girl", marking International Women's Day.
The very first time the subject of women’s sport was brought up within the Council of Europe in 1963, shortly after the creation of the Committee for out-of-school education that was responsible for sport matters, it was in a reactionary and quite mach...
The Western Society of College Directors of Physical Education for Women is established.
The Women and Health Association (Association Deporate Mujer y Salud – DEMUSA) is established aiming to promote, establish and stimulate women’s...
The Women and Sport Advisory Board was established with the aim of bringing together experts from across a number of sectors to formulate practical solutions for making progress on women’s involvement in sport. Recommendations presented by the Advisor...
The women and sport committees of the Central Sports Federation and the Workers' Sports Federation are temporarily unified (see 1946).
The women and sports committee hosts a seminar.
The Women and Sports Committee of the General Assembly of National Associations is launched (see 1997).
The Women in Sport Association of Ghana (WOSPAG) is established by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
The Women in Sport Commission of the Argentine Olympic Committee organises a seminar in San Juan. Topics discussed included women in leadership roles, planning a sports event and sports marketing with few resources. The event was aimed at a range of st...
The Women's Cricket Association and the England and Wales Cricket Board merge. As with previous mergers of women's and men's sports in the UK, the balance of power in the new organisations was heavily weighted toward men.
The Women's Sport Leadership Academy (WSLA) South Africa programme is hosted over three days for 27 leaders based in the country.
The Women's Sport Leadership Academy (WSLA) Zimbabwe programme is hosted over four days for 25 leaders based in three countries.
The Women's Sport Leadership Academy for High-Performance Coaches (WSLA HPC) is hosted at the University of Hertfordshire, UK by the Anita White Foundation and Females Achieving Brilliance (FAB). The International Summer Sports Federations of Cycling, ...
The Women's Sports Empowerment Colloquium is organised by the Women's Sports Association of Ghana (WOSPAG) under the theme "Gender Advocacy and empowerment through sports". A particular focus was toward women in leadership.
The Women's Sports Foundation serves as the official charity partner of the inaugural Aurora Games Festival – an all-women's sports and entertainment festival hosted over six days in Albany, New York.
The Women’s Sport Foundation (WSFUS) womenSports magazine is renamed to Women Sports Magazine.
The Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) states it is worried about government privatisation of leisure through Compulsory Competitive Tendering...
The Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) is launched. womenSports magazine is published. Donna de Verona serves as the first President from 1979-1984.
The Women’s Sport Trust (WST) is launched in the UK by a group of volunteers influenced by the 2012 London Olympic Games. It is a grant-giving...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) publishes a report titled ‘Health and Development Through Physical Activity and Sport’.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) stage World Health Day, with a special focus on physical activity. A factsheet for women and physical activity...
The World Squash library adds a compendium on the last five decades of the Women's World Championship.
The Youth Section and the Women Section ‘took charge of the physical education of its members and all non-affiliated youth – this is, the Spanish...
The ‘1995 Plan of Action: A Commonwealth Vision towards the Year 2000’ is launched by the Commonwealth Heads of Government and is fundamentally...
The ‘Active Women: National Policy on Women and Girls in Sport, Recreation and Physical Activity 1999-2002’ is launched.
The ‘most significant milestone in the evolution of sport’ occurs with the issue of Decree Number 199. This decree ‘formalised the Sports...
The ‘showpiece’ event of the ‘golden age’ of motorsport for women occurs at Brooklands motor circuit involving Kay Petre and Gwenda Hawkes who were...
There is an increased focus in the UK on sexual abuse and sexual harassment work in sport.
Third Arab Forum on Women and Sport hosted in Sidi Farage.
Third Asian Conference on Women and Sport, Sanaa. The conference may have been under the auspices of the interim Asian Working Group on Women and...
Third Conference of European Ministers Responsible for Sport , Majorca. Ministers decided ‘to take all necessary measures to ensure an active...
Third Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup, Los Angeles. The tournament is won by the USA. The captain of USA...
Third Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) Women’s World Games, Prague.
Third Iberoamerican Conference of Women and Sports, Cartagena.
Third International Association of Physical Education and Sport for Girls and Women (IAPESGW) World Conference, London. The Japan Association for...
Third International Olympic Committee (IOC) World Conference on Women and Sport, Marrakech, titled ‘New Strategies, New Commitments’. The outcome...
Third Meeting of Commonwealth Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs (WAMM) meeting in Ottawa. A report by the Commonwealth Women and Sport...
Third meeting of the French-Speaking World Conference of Ministers for Youth and Sports (CONFEJES) Committee responsible for the promotion of women...
Third National Games contains three exhibition sports for women.
Third Oceania Women and Sport Workshop, Suva.
Third Olympic Forum – ‘Women and the Olympic Movement: Present and Future’, Barcelona.
Third PanAmerican Congress of Physical Education, Sports and Recreation titled ‘Perspectives of Women in Physical Education, Sport and Recreation...
Third Summer Olympic Games, St Louis. Archery is introduced as a sport for women to compete in. Women make up 0.9% of total athletes.
Third Summit of the Americas. Even though the first was in 1994, this was the first to include sport, under the umbrella of cultural diversity.
Third United Nations (UN) Global Conference for Women, Nairobi. The Decade for Women and its themes were reviewed and countries agreed to The...
Third Winter Olympic Games, Lake Placid. Women make up 8.3% of total athletes.
Third Women and Sport Seminar, sponsored by the National Olympic Committee.
Third Women's Rugby World Cup and the first to be sanctioned by the IRB, Netherlands. New Zealand beat the USA in the final.
Third Women’s Sport Leadership Academy (WSLA) organised by the Anita White Foundation (AWF) and Females Achieving Brilliance (FAB), supported by the University of Chichester.
Third World Conference on Women and Sport, Montreal, organised by the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) and titled ‘Investing in...
Thirty years of Title IX is marked with a National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
Three Booklets on Women and Sport are published.
Three women from Saudi Arabia compete in the World Para Athletics Grand Prix, Dubai, UAE, for the first time.
Tour Feminine Cycliste (women’s ‘Tour de France’) first authorised by the Union Cycliste Internationale.
Turkish Civil Code amended: women gain greater legal and property rights.
Two committees for women’s sport are established as the gymnastics organisation did not favour competitive sport, meaning sportswomen decided to...
Two World Confederation of Billiard Sports (WCBS) World Championships for Women are launched.
UEFA launches UEFA.tv which will broadcast youth, women’s and futsal competitions to all viewers who complete a free registration.
UK Equality Act amended.
UK Sport launches the Women and Leadership Development Programme.
UK women’s hockey and cricket leagues increased in number and ‘began to provide forms of rational recreation and welfare’.
UN Women, in partnership with the IOC, launch the Sports for Generation Equality Initiative. The Initiative aims to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in and through sport. It will allow the sports movement to multiply the i...
Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM) first all-female Aqaubike World Championship.
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) sixth Conference on Women’s Football, Oslo, contains discussions and reviews of structures.
United Nations (UN) Action Plan on Sport for Development and Peace is included as part of a report on Sport for Development (see 2004).
United Nations (UN) Convention of the Political Rights of Women, the first global mandate to grant women equal political rights under the law – the...
United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities becomes effective (see 2007 Mar).
United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is signed (see 2008 Mar).
United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child passed. This document provided support for the concept of sport and physical education as...
United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclaims 1975 as the International Women’s Year (IWY). The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)...
United Nations (UN) International Year of Sport and Physical Education (see 2004).
United Nations (UN) Jakarta Declaration for the Advancement of Women in Asia and the Pacific.
United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit adopts the UN Millennium Declaration, committing nations to address eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General convenes the first meeting of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force to review activities involving sport within the...
United Nations (UN) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations (UN) Women and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) partner on an agreement which will promote women's empowerment through sports.
United Nations (UN) World Survey on the Role of Women in Development. Subsequent surveys are published roughly every five years thereafter.
United Nations (UN) ‘Decade for Women: Equality, Development Peace’.
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) meeting was the first opportunity for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after...
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) meetings. WomenSport International (WSI) continue to push for women and sport and physical...
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) review of progress made in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action (see 1995 Sep)....
United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (UNCEDAW) adopted by the UN General Assembly as an...
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) established.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) launches an International Charter of Physical Education and Sport and...
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Observatory on Women, Sport and Physical Education (see 2008) now...
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Observatory on Women, Sport and Physical Education launched in Greece.
Until 1977, the Olympic Charter specified the precise list of sports in which women could compete for both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, a rule that was not replicated for men athletes.
Vassar College students organised what is believed to have been the first track competitions for college women in the country.
Vassar Female College opened "'to accomplish for young women what our colleges are accomplishing for young men". From the beginning students...
Vatican City's women's football team play their inaugural competitive match.
When the first sports development projects were emerging, ‘gender’ had yet to achieve any worthwhile profile in sports policy (see 1982).
Women allowed to be elected to municipal, state and federal levels.
Women and Development Programme established.
Women and Sport Advisory Committee established to advise the Netherlands Sport Federation.
Women and Sport Botswana (WASBO) is established launched as a sub-structure of the National Sports Council.
Women and Sport Conference hosted. The next few years saw a few women rise through the Central Sports Federation and training courses were also...
Women and Sport Course, Dubai.
Women and Sport Foundation South Africa (WSFSA) launches from the informal structure previously called Women and Sport South Africa (WASSA).
Women and Sport National Conference, Paris. The formation of a National Olympic and Sport Committee Women and Sport Commission may have resulted...
Women and Sport National Conference.
Women and Sport National Conference.
Women and Sport South Africa (WASSA) ceases.
Women and Sport Working Group formed.
Women and Sport workshops hosted.
Women and Sports Conference, Kampala. Topics included inadequate funding, lack of safe space, limited media attention and societal stereotypes.
Women and Sports media prize created and one is awarded to a journalist and another to a story regarding women and sport.
Women are allowed to be voted in as members of the influential Marylebone Cricket Club after 200 years of exclusivity
Women compete in the First Malayan All Chinese Olympiad.
Women debut at the ‘Old China’ National Games.
Women first compete in an athletics championship.
Women first compete in cross-country skiing championships.
Women first compete in the cross-country skiing championships.
Women first represented in the national sports federation executive board, although they were a minority.
Women from the German Sports Federation (DSB) celebrate their fifty year anniversary of involvement.
Women gain same voting rights as men.
Women gain the right to vote.
Women get full equality to men.
Women get right to vote.
Women get the right to vote.
Women get the right to vote.
Women get the right to vote.
Women granted the right to vote.
Women in Sport and the Challenge of Change Workshop, Apia.
Women in Sport Leadership Conference.
Women In Sport Oceania (WISO) meet to continue to develop the network and its role at the Oceania National Olympic Committee General Assembly,...
Women in Sport seminar held as part of the Sydney 2000 development programme in Oceania.
Women in Sport seminar, Thessoloniki.
Women in Sports/Nepal (WINS) formed as the country’s first non-governmental organisation.
Women obtain the right to vote.
Women over 30yrs old and with certain property are granted the right to vote (see 1928 Jul).
Women play the first competitive round at Augusta National Golf Club, which had only hosted men's competitions before, notably The Masters.
Women race against men on equal terms at Brooklands motor circuit (see 1928 Aug) for the first time.
Women Sport Foundation established with approaches from the government, the media, and physical education (see 1936).
Women Sport General Administration founded.
Women Sport Leaders Association formed.
Women Sports and Fitness Foundation Malaysia (WSFFM) established.
Women Sports and Fitness Foundation Malaysia (WSFFM) organises its second biannual National Women’s Games (see 2005).
Women Sports and Fitness Foundation Malaysia (WSFFM) organises the South East Asia Women in Sports Conference in Kuala Lumpur. 350 participants...
Women Sports Committee (see 1981) becomes the Directorate of Women’s Sports Affairs (see 1989).
Women take part in the first elections. However, since the Revolution (late 1970s), the percentage in decision-making roles has rarely increased.
Women win right to vote and to be elected to parliament positions. It was not until the late-1990s that numbers started to increase. The 1960s also...
Women's College of Physical Education established in Tokyo.
Women's cricket players are to be awarded playing contracts for the first time in the country's history.
Women's Flag Football is announced as a collegiate sport in the USA from 2021 by the National Football League (NFL) and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
Women's Sports Federation formed and hosts the second Women’s World Games (see 1926) but is disbanded and replaced soon after (see 1928).
Women's Twenty20 cricket, beach volleyball and Para table tennis are added to the programme of sports at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. It means that the 2022 Commonwealth Games will have more women's and Para medal events than any previous edition of th...
Women, Sport and the Media Conference in Prague.
WomenSport Australia Alliance (WSAA) formed from discussions between the Women’s Sport Foundation of Western Australia and the Australian...
WomenSport Australia host the WomenSport Festival and unveil strategies, including a Harassment-free strategy.
WomenSport International (WSI) board meeting, California.
WomenSport International (WSI) convenes an International Forum on the Female Athlete Triad just prior to 4th Olympic Scientific Congress, Atlanta....
WomenSport International (WSI) Executive Board meeting, Copenhagen.
WomenSport International (WSI) Executive Board meeting, Edmonton.
WomenSport International (WSI) Executive Board meeting, Toronto.
WomenSport International (WSI) Executive Committee Meeting, Dallas.
WomenSport International (WSI) Executive Committee meeting, Minneapolis.
WomenSport International (WSI) first newsletter ‘The Starting Line’ published. It had also created Task Forces by now on Physical Activity and...
WomenSport International (WSI) formally established.
WomenSport International (WSI) organise a satellite conference to American College of Sports Medicine titled ‘Physical Activity and Health...
WomenSport International (WSI) Position Statement on Sexual Harassment in Sport launched.
WomenSport International (WSI) Sexual Harassment Task Force produce a brochure of information and recommendations on the issue.
WomenSport International (WSI) write a comprehensive report to the United Nations (UN) seeking official non-governmental organisation (NGO) status...
WomenWin launches an ‘International Guide to Addressing Girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights through Sport’.
Women’s Amateur Athletic Association formed in England.
Women’s Basketball introduced to the Olympic programme.
Women’s Desk formed after the South Africa National Sport Congress, with financial help from the Australian Sports Commission (ASC).
Women’s Football, Women’s Softball, and Women’s Beach Volleyball are all added to the Olympic programme.
Women’s Games held in the Caribbean.
Women’s Gymnastics Association established. Consisting of Finnish and Swedish groups, it was formed before any male gymnastic organisation. Split...
Women’s Sport Association established.
Women’s Sport Federation Iraq founded and initiated by the national Sports Council with the approval of the National Olympic Committee.
Women’s Sport Foundation Israel (unknown start-date) organises an annual sporting event in Tel Aviv.
Women’s Sport Foundation Japan (WSFJ) launched. NOTE - 1983 has also been claimed as the start-date.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) meets with the Great Britain Sports Council and ‘the significance of this venture was that it established a...
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) and the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) hold a joint coaching workshop and seminar with the...
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) and the Central Council of Physical Recreation (CCPR) host a seminar on ‘Developing Women’s Sport’.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual Conference, Brighton.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual Conference, Gateshead.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual Conference, Leeds.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual Conference, Leicester.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual Conference.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual General Meeting, Coventry.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual General Meeting, London.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual General Meeting, London.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual General Meeting, London.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual General Meeting, London.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual General Meeting, London.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual General Meeting, Wakefield
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Annual Meeting, Leicester.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) become sponsored by Tambrands (owner of Tampax) for two years. A magazine and awards ceremonies follow.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) becomes a company limited by guarantee.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) becomes a registered charity.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) celebrate 10th anniversary.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) Executive Board Meeting, Bisham Abbey.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) has its submission for Great Britain Sports Council recognition approved, allowing it to apply for national...
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) is awarded the Investor in People award and gets a 50% in grant aid.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) is re-launched as the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) by the Prime Minister at a high-profile...
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) launches a second ‘Women, Get Set, Go!’ programme to encourage women to get involved in sport and sport...
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) launches ‘Women into Coaching’ – the first of two projects in London that created greater links with National...
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) officially inaugurated at its first Annual General Meeting.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) press and publicity group negotiate a contract with a publisher to launch a Women and Sport Magazine.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) receives a £40,000 grant from the Great Britain Sports Council to fund two full-time staff.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) reveals results of a vote concerning opening up its membership to men. Votes for: 55, against: 6, abstentions: 8.
Women’s Sport Foundation UK (WSFUK) stage the ‘Women, Get Set, Go!’ women and sport leadership course.
Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) Annual Conference titled ‘Summit 2000: Brave New World…of Women’s Sports’.
Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) Annual Conference, Denver. The origins of the Women’s International Sports Coalition (WISC) are formed, in...
Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) Annual Conference, Indianapolis.
Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) annual summit – ‘Beyond our Barriers’.
Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) produces a report on Sport and Teen Pregnancy.
Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) produces a report titled ‘Addressing the needs of female professional and amateur athletes’.
Women’s Sport Foundation USA (WSFUS) release a report called ‘Minorities in Sports: The effect of varsity sports participation on the social,...
Women’s Sports Association in Korea (WSAK) established. In the mid-1990s, WSAK was composed mostly of retired international athletes.
World Forum on Physical Activity and Sport, Quebec. Heavy lobbying by WomenSport International (WSI) and International Working Group on Women and...
World Para Powerlifting launch 'She Can lift' - an advocacy and awareness campaign to attract more female athletes and improve gender equality in the sport.
World Rugby announces that the names of its flagship World Cup competitions are to become "gender neutral" in both the 15s and sevens formats, meaning the word "Women's" is dropped from the name of female events in a bid to ensure equal billing with men's
World Rugby launches the global campaign ‘Try and Stop Us’, aimed at driving increased participation and engagement among fans, audiences, players and investors in the women’s game. The global campaign, developed with the support of national unions an...
World Summit on Physical Education, Berlin. The ‘Berlin Agenda’ supports the Windhoek Call for Action (see 1998 May).
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WSLA Botswana is hosted for predominantly African women in middle-to-senior decision-making positions.
Ximena Restrepo is chosen as the first female vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
Zahra Lari becomes the first woman to compete in the sport internationally wearing a traditional Muslim headscarf. She is controversially deducted a point for doing so.
‘Academia’ established in Paris. Similar to Fémina Sport (see 1911).
‘Investment in Women’s Sport – Pays off’ conference, Lillehammer. 162 delegates from over 20 countries discuss projects, policies, strategies and...
‘Sportswomen Step Forward’ Conference, Sydney. Organised by the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), it aimed to motivate women to achieve...
‘Women and Sports: Old and New Stereotypes’ conference, Thessaloniki.
‘Women taking the Lead’ project funded by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
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