Sport NB encourages all its members to provide equity in sport for girls & women. Provincial Sport Organizations can take simple steps to encourage more girls & women in sport:

• ensure your website has equal representation of photos for both male & females
• recognize both male & female in sports awards
• nominate your female athletes & coaches for the Pitney Bowes Sports Awards

Sport NB in partnership with LocalMotion has the following resources or events to promote girls & women in sport:

• Celebration of girls & women in sport & physical activity. The Celebration event provides an opportunity to recognize the accomplishments & contributions that girls & women have made to sport.
• Go Girl!     Download the Festival Toolkit

Go Girl! is a program that was created to provide girls the opportunities, inspiration and support to participate in sport, recreation, and physical activities.  This program is inclusive, does not require any prior knowledge or skill, and is designed to empower girls to become and remain active.

• LocalMotion  

This toolkit has been created as a practical resource for anyone in New Brunswick who is interested in promoting, encouraging, coaching or supporting girls and women in sport, physical activity, recreation and wellness.  The toolkit provides readers the opportunity to learn from others’ experiences, to read the latest facts and statistics, and to become motivated to make a significant difference for women and girls in our Province.

 Interesting websites and articles:

Teenage girls can be physically active....and still be cool

Women's Legal Education and Action Fund

Atlantic Girls and Women in Sport and Physical Activity

Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport

Strengthening the Role of Women and Youth in Sport