CSD and the New Zealand and Australian embassies in Spain bring sport and gender equality to the classroom | CSD

Madrid, April 24, 2023.- The embassies of Australia and New Zealand in Spain, together with the High Sports Council (CSD), have offered a series of workshops over the past two weeks in public bilingual schools in the Madrid community, with the aim of promoting social change from an early age, and the incredible power of sport to promote gender equality. In addition to harnessing and helping women develop their full potential.

The workshops, delivered from Thursday 13 to Monday 24 April, have been developed in different public schools in the regions where some of the girls’ soccer teams play, with a focus on national team level in Australia and New Zealand this summer. For the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Representatives of both embassies conducted these workshops in which they displayed some interesting and relevant information about their respective countries.

CSD was represented in these workshops by Bárbara Fuertes, General Deputy Director of Women and Sports, and Natalia Flores, former soccer player and director of the Women and Sports Program, who reflected on and discussed gender bias. There are situations where women are discriminated against while guaranteeing their effective participation in all fields of sport.

The workshops also served as a platform to bring the testimonies of leading women in the world of sports to classrooms in the Madrid area, such as Natalia Flores or Atlético de Madrid Women’s Team Director Lola Romero. The sessions thus provide reference models for young participants, giving face and voice to the progress achieved and obstacles to be overcome.

FIFA Women’s World Cup

If there’s one thing Australia and New Zealand are known for around the world, it’s their passion for sports. While both countries share sports practice as a deeply ingrained part of their culture and identity, in 2023 they will be doing it like never before. In less than three months, Australia and New Zealand will become the first countries to co-host the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

It will be an unprecedented cup, the first time the competition has been held in the Southern Hemisphere and the first time the competition has been expanded from 24 to 32 teams; Thus raising the visibility of women’s participation in sports is an absolutely historic event.

Using the tournament as an excuse, the embassies of both countries in Spain organized educational workshops to promote gender equality and empower women through sports in collaboration with the High Sports Council.