As founders of organisations with backgrounds in athletics, we have lived experience of the suffering and trauma within the athletics community caused and perpetuated by antiquated systems that did not have our athletes’ safety and protection at their heart. Through… Read More »A Joint message from Kyniska and the Female Coaching Network in support of UKA and CEO Joanna Coates.
This latest research has been undertaken by Danny McLoughlin of Run Repeat. The report includes the teams that participated in the most recent season of the English FA WSL, Women’s Champions League, USA NWSL, German Frauen-Bundesliga, French Division 1 Feminine… Read More »More Female Football Coaches than Ever Before, but Men Still Dominate
Since the launch of our research project published in February 2021, we have been working alongside UK Athletics and a number of track & field coaches to support an understanding of it’s findings. We are pleased to announce that as… Read More »FCN and UK Athletics Work Together to Achieve Gender Equity in Athletics Coaching
Recognised as one of the premier events in the U.K. domestic athletics calendar, Manchester International will see some of the UK’s brightest talents going head-to-head at the Manchester Regional Arena. This years event will take place at Sportcity, Manchester August… Read More »Coaching Stats for Manchester International 2021 (U.K.)
Below are the numbers & percentages of female Team Coaches selected as part of each sport for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, according to the official Team Canada information. Archery – 1 coach – 0 female coaches – 0% Artistic… Read More »Tokyo 2020: Team Canada Coaching Stats
Below are the numbers & percentages of female Team Coaches selected as part of each sport for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, according to the official Team GB information. Artistic Swimming – 2 coaches – 2 female coaches = 100%… Read More »Tokyo2020: Team GB Coaching Stats
Below are the number of coaching positions available within the team sports at the Tokyo Olympic Games. These include Head Coaching Roles and Assistant Coaching Roles: Artistic Swimming —- 69 coaching positions – 63 female coaches = 91% Baseball /… Read More »Number of Female Coaches in Each Team Sport at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
UK Athletics and the Female Coaching Network are inviting all coaches to attend a ‘Let’s Talk About Gender in Coaching” webinar series in August 2021. UKA and FCN are hosting a number of webinar discussions for all coaches who have… Read More »Let’s Talk About Gender in Coaching
The Female Coaching Network Track & Field: UK is a groundbreaking approach to making much needed change in the world of British track and field. Pre 2020, the sport was in dire need of highlighting and addressing the many issues… Read More »Track & Field: UK
Findings: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K. Representatives from each of the four home countries and UK Athletics were interviewed to explore their perspective and approaches towards the issue of gender equity within their high-performance coaching… Read More »Research Findings: NGB Approach is Fixing the Woman, not the System