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Changing the game: Do Sports have a gender? WOW Athens 2023

Changing the game: Do Sports have a gender? WOW Athens 2023
16.03.2023 - 17.06

Professor Irene Kamberidou, member of the Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Committeeof the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) has been invited to speak at the WOW-Women of the World Festival, held in Greece for the first time.

Irene Kamberidou will be speaking— on the gender gap in sport leadership in addition to the underrepresentation of women’s sports in the media: printed, digital, television news and media coverage)— on Sunday April 2, 2023 at 13.30 at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre  https://www.snfcc.org/en/WOWpanelSports

Other speakers include Olympic champion Sofia Bekatorou; Wheelchair fencing champion Kelly Loufaki; Alpinist, Founder of A Woman Can Be.org and European Climate Pact Ambassador in Greece Vanessa Archontidou. Sport journalist Elena Bouzala will be moderating the panel.  See also: https://www.snfcc.org/en/WOW

The first  WOW – Women of the World Festival in Greece – organized in cooperation with the UK-based WOW Foundation , with the support of the British Embassy and the SNFCC— will be taking place from 1-3 April 2023 in Athens at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (SNFCC). 

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