Sports that invest in Diversity & Inclusion will win the race WITH @KatieKelly
Current situation – COVID-19
Fundamentally COVID has forced all of us, to rethink and challenge the way we’ve traditionally operated and importantly to have honest conversations around the world we live in and what is the sustainable way forward.
Undoubtedly, these remain testing times for our sports and our community grass root sports who have been impacted by the pause on sports across the nation. This is the time for our National Sporting Organisations to show true leadership. Now is the time for our NSO’s to show they care about their communities. This is not the time to digress from a comprehensive Diversity and Inclusion (D&) programs.
Social inequality – an embedded D&I program would enable Rugby Australia to achieve greater participation across the demographic spectrum and beyond the traditional playing grounds of Ruby in GPS schools. Rugby Australia are at a critical phase with the demise of the Wallabies, and they are the 9th ranked sport at grassroots level. Yet, a review of the Rugby Australia board includes nine Directors. One female and eight males, all of white Caucasian appearance.
New Power and Boardroom – we know SportAustralia has mandated for funded National Sporting Organisations to have no more than 60% of one gender on the board. It is also advocating now for NSO’s to demonstrate a commitment to achieving diversity targets within its board composition including: Geographical locality, Aboriginal and Torres StraitIslander, CALD, Age, SES, Disability, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity,Race, Religion.
The question is which Sporting Organisations will continue to invest and develop their D&I programs. The ones that are willing to meet their full obligations and to by embracing and celebrating the full community in their reach from those of culturally linguistic groups, refugees and immigrants, disability, LGBTI and religious groups among others will win the race in the long run.
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