The world has been through a lot in the last several years. Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few.
The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. Moreover, significant gains in women’s sport in recent years are now under considerable threat as COVID-19 erases the momentum and the unprecedented attention women’s sport has gained around the world. From the elite to the grassroots, gaps between women and men, girls and boys are set to widen. Women and girls will, once again, lose access to the benefits of sport.
Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement,
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