World Rugby: a call for sports leaders to promote gender equality in sport

World Rugby has entered into a four-year strategic partnership (2022-2026) with the International Working Group On Women and Sport, and is calling on "global sports leaders to get behind the gender equality in sport movement," announced the body on 29/08/2022.

As part of the partnership, "the two organisations have pledged to work together over the next four years, starting this November, to raise awareness of the need for positive change and action right across the sports system through collaboration on a series of shared initiatives," said World Rugby.

"The collaboration, which supports the objectives of World Rugby's Women in Rugby Plan 2017-25, will create an impactful alliance by connecting the next two women's Rugby World Cups in Aotearoa New Zealand (2022) and 2025 in England with the next two IWG World Conferences on Women & Sport in 2022 and 2026 in the UK" during which "hundreds of global sports leaders" from around the world will "work together to design and launch real practical solutions," continued World Rugby, which will send up to 50 female leaders to the 2022 event…