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1/8 A Twitter thread about my personal reflections on applying a gender lens to the online events of the sport sector that I’ve attended. Please chip in with your experience, especially with opposite views, so we could start a discussion and create a more inclusive digital space.
2/8 How come almost all questions related to gender equality or women in sport are directed to the female panellists? We need both genders involved in the discussion.
3/8 During one of our events in the breakout workshop on how to engage female refugees, we had 38 participants attending. Only 8 of them were male – this did not reflect the general gender balance of the attendees.
4/8 We are still having large panels with single-sex representatives? Has anyone else noticed a tendency to often have only-female panels when we are discussing women in sport or safeguarding in sport?
5/8 What is the disparity of men/women asking questions from the panellists? Especially if it’s an open mic/video opportunity?
6/8 It seemed to me on several occasions that female presenters respect the time limits set to them by moderators and don’t talk over the moderator as much (but this might’ve been a very specific event).
7/8 Women tend to apologise a lot more, even for the technical issues that are not their fault. I recorded one female speaker doing it 17 times during her presentation while the male speaker in the same position said sorry only once.
8/8 Why are the conversation on how to involve male champions and allies to advance the gender parity in sport taking place only among women? (This comes from a personal experience of a working group). Are we doing enough to include men in the conversation?
