Maria Bobenrieth is Executive Director of Women Win, the Netherlands.
Play It Forward: The Untapped Potential of Sport to Accelerate Global Progress towards Gender Equity
Girls are born leaders. What they lack, almost universally, is an equal opportunity to practice that leadership and to build the resilience required for decision-making in political, economic and public life. It is clear that sport has a role to play in turning the dials of history on gender in this context. Sport builds the vital resilience necessary to venture into the challenging context of political, public and economic office.