Volleyball and seashore volleyball proceed to champion gender equality
On this yr’s Worldwide Ladies’s Day, the FIVB has reiterated its dedication to making sure volleyball continues to prepared the ground in championing gender equality.
Celebrated yearly on 8 March, Worldwide Ladies’s Day celebrates the social, financial, cultural and political achievements of ladies. The day additionally marks a name to motion for accelerating gender parity. As a gender equal sport by nature, volleyball has a key position to play in creating feminine position fashions and selling gender equality each on and off the courtroom.
Final yr, Volleyball World, the industrial entity for the game around the globe, launched the world’s first Equal Jersey marketing campaign on the Volleyball Nations League (VNL) 2021 Finals. The marketing campaign noticed female and male gamers who share the identical jersey quantity proudly put on one another’s names on their jerseys, and it efficiently highlighted how the game, gamers and followers all try to problem the inequality that incessantly exists between genders on this planet of sport.
The FIVB is dedicated to defending and selling the gender stability that's inherent within the sport. Throughout all main competitions, equal prize cash and match codecs promote a degree taking part in subject, whereas knowledge from Nielsen client analysis demonstrates that the ladies’s and males’s recreation are equally in style amongst followers. And followers worldwide could have a possibility to see the very best of ladies’s volleyball at this yr’s FIVB Volleyball Ladies’s World Championship which shall be co-hosted by the Netherlands and Poland.
Off the courtroom, the FIVB continues to advertise equal alternatives for ladies throughout the administration of the game. On the coronary heart of the FIVB is the Athletes’ Fee which maintains equal gender illustration amongst its members, together with the Fee’s President, Madelein Meppelink. And for the primary time ever, the Athletes’ Fee President was robotically appointed to the FIVB Board of Administration with full Board member rights.
Trying even additional again, in 2020, historical past was made throughout the sport as Morocco’s Bouchra Hajij and Indonesia’s Rita Subowo turned the first-ever ladies to guide the African and Asian Continental Confederations respectively. These steps in direction of better illustration throughout the administration of the game proceed to be championed by the game and the FIVB management.
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