England has some way to go before Sport England’s goal of having a 25 % female representation in sports governance is fulfilled, a new survey shows. Presently, less than 50% of British sport’s governing bodies live up to this goal.

In this comment piece, professor David Rowe takes a look at the changes to sport, celebrity and masculinity that have occurred over the last decades through a characterization of two key figures in football.

A new report on gender balance in Olympic competitions and leadership gives recommendations on how to further reduce the gender imbalance that research finds to exist in the Olympic movement.

In this report from the Centre for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto, Peter Donnelly and Michele K. Donnelly has analysed gender equality in sport using the case of the 2012 London Olympics. The specific focus of the report is on the athletes and on the gender-based structural and rule differences that still exist on the Olympic programme.

SportAccord, the umbrella organisation for both Olympic and non-Olympic international sports, has released a Factsheet providing an overview of the representation of women in leadership positions amongst the organisation’s members. The Factsheet shows little change in the gender imbalance within the last year, writes SportAccord in a press release.

In international matches, FIFA is responsible for the insurance of the players – but only for the men. This has made the Swedish women football league association (EFD) accuse FIFA of discrimination of female players and in a letter addressed to FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke, they request that female players are included in the arrangement.

Despite increasing interest in women's sport, almost all sponsor deals still go to men. New research from the United Kingdom reveals a deep gulf between male and female athletes when it comes to sponsorship.