Healthy Communities Network - August 2025

Leveling the Playing Field - Women in Sport / Gender-Based Violence in Sport

Wednesday 6 August, 2pm-3pm

If you would like to attend this session of the Healthy Communities Network, email us at [email protected].

See below a range of supplementary resources for this session to further expand on what will be explored together.

• UNESCO: Towards a Safer Playing Field: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/towards-safer-playing-field-tackling-violence-against-women-and-girls-sport
• Our Watch: Equality and respect in sport https://www.ourwatch.org.au/sport
• Sport and Rec Vic: Safe and Inclusive Sport- Preventing gender-based violence https://sport.vic.gov.au/resources/safe-and-inclusive-sport-preventing-gender-based-violence
• Respect Victoria: More than a game - the power of local sport to prevent violence against women https://www.respectvictoria.vic.gov.au/news/local-sport-preventing-violence-against-women
• Change our Game: Fair access policy roadmap https://changeourgame.vic.gov.au/initiatives/fair-access-policy-roadmap
• City of Greater Bendigo fair access https://www.bendigo.vic.gov.au/community-services/sport-and-leisure/fair-access
• Sports Focus
  • https://sportsfocus.com.au/new-club-resources-launched-preventing-gender-based-violence-in-sport/
  • https://sportsfocus.com.au/issue-gender-disrespect-violence/we-do-something-gendered-disrespect-violence/
  • https://sportsfocus.com.au/issue-gender-disrespect-violence/we-see-something-gendered-disrespect-violence/
  • https://sportsfocus.com.au/issue-gender-disrespect-violence/gendered-violence-in-sport-campaign-resources/
  • https://sportsfocus.com.au/issue-gender-disrespect-violence/we-say-something-gendered-disrespect-violence/
• Boom time (again) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14443058.2019.1575262 
• Has it never been a better time? - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14/2/87 
• Sport and Recreation Victoria – Safe and Inclusive Sport - https://sport.vic.gov.au/resources/safe-and-inclusive-sport-preventing-gender-based-violence 
• Change Makers Clubs Case Study (Regional) https://www.regionalsportvictoria.org.au/collaboration-the-key-as-change-makers-step-up/ 
• Encountering resistance – (VicHealth) https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/Encountering-Resistance-Gender-Equality.pdf 
• Safe and Equal guide to resistance– https://safeandequal.org.au/resources/overcoming-resistance-and-backlash-a-guide-for-primary-prevention-practitioners/ 
• Our Watch resistance and backlash – https://www.ourwatch.org.au/resistance-and-backlash-in-primary-prevention