{"id":55265,"date":"2015-03-16T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9ca296d19f204c631afdb204505caf0a"},"modified":"2015-03-16T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T16:22:49","slug":"news-story-government-encourages-women-to-pursue-positions-on-sports-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55265","title":{"rendered":"News story: Government encourages women to pursue positions on sports\u2019 boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>More than 120 senior sports administrators and businesswomen gathered at the Tower of London on Monday 9 March for an event designed to encourage more women with a corporate background to take up positions on sports\u2019 boards.<\/p>\n<p>The government-hosted event was an opportunity for women from organisations including Clifford Chance, Bank of America and Google to meet senior individuals from a wide range of sports organisations to discuss how working together could prove beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>Chaired by the England and Wales Cricket Board\u2019s Head of Women\u2019s Cricket, Clare Connor, guests heard discussions on a range of topics with panelists including Jennie Price (Sport England), Helena Morrissey CBE, Liz Nicholl (UK Sport), Bill James (Triathlon England), Leigh Hine (PSD Group) and Karen Neale (England Athletics).<\/p>\n<p>The key message from the day was that not only sportswomen or those that have experience in the sector are successful candidates for sports\u2019 boards.<\/p>\n<p>Case studies of women that have made the move from the corporate sector to sports\u2019 boards were handed out at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Sport and Tourism, Helen Grant, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSport plays a vital role in the economy and culture of the UK and female athletes are increasingly matching and surpassing their male colleagues in the medal counts.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it is equally important to have women represented in the boardrooms, and I want to see more women on the boards of governing bodies to really help shape sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir skills, knowledge and talents, whether it be from a sport or corporate background, are hugely valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow the conversation on Twitter using #WoSB15<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government hosts its second high-powered networking event aimed at inspiring businesswomen to join sports\u2019 boards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}