AIS | TALKING | Change our Game: Women in Sport | Wednesday 8 May 2019 | 12noon-1.30pm

[Edited extract from public address]

Sport is meant to be a contest carried out on a level playing field. For many years, mainstream sports have been played and administered by males. 

This is changing with many more females participating in sporting contests with even more now vying for management roles, trying to have a say about greater female participation within the various sporting codes. 

However, have females been given a fair go on the sporting field?
Is management and the board level of the sports equally represented ?

Panel:

• Dr Bridie O’Donnell; Head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation; physician and champion cyclist.
• Stella Smith; General Manager, Community and Government Relations at Melbourne Victory. Director of VicHealth, Blue Light Victoria & the Melbourne Victory FC Academy.
• Kirby Bentley; an Australian rules footballer who plays for Carlton in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Bentley was signed as a priority player by Fremantle in August 2016 ahead of the leagues inaugural 2017 season. The Kirby Bentley Cup, a tournament for Indigenous girls aged between thirteen and fifteen, is named in her honour.

Moderator: Prof. Geoff Dickson; Director of research partnerships at the La Trobe Business School. His research included sport management and sport governance.

Considerations: A light lunch with coffee and tea will be offered. If you have any special dietary needs, please let us know when you register for the event.

Where: AIS Office, Ground Floor,441 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

Cost: Free

Bookings: Online through EventBrite or please call (03) 9867 2248 if you have any questions
(Finger food offered from 12pm. Event starts promptly at 12:30pm)

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