For the primary time within the European Judo Union historical past, there shall be two girls appearing in Vice President roles; Catarina RODRIGUES for Sport and Kristiina PEKKOLA for Training.
Rodrigues has been within the place for some months now, and Pekkola extra lately. Now inside a brand new cycle, we learn the way each really feel in regards to the improvement of judo and the subject of gender fairness and the way it’s fostered throughout the EJU. Pekkola, additionally the President for Sweden, already has expertise working towards range within the Nordic area with nice success,
Properly from the expertise we’ve had within the Nordic international locations, we’ve discovered range to be crucial. To have position fashions is encouraging to youthful girls, to be coaches and leaders, and work throughout the organisation construction. It’s good that the Government Committee to have completely different views, we have now completely different experiences and practices, simply to be within the room and having dialogue can educate everybody.
Rodrigues, a former worldwide and world medallist, has been on a distinct journey to her place within the EJU,
Actually, for some time I used to be not very delicate to this matter as a result of all my development was performed in a gentle method and I didn’t actually have these glasses on for gender equality. I used to be invited by the Nationwide Olympic Committee to be a part of Girls in Sport fee, and to start with I wasn’t so in to it, however as soon as you actually begin to have a look at it intimately, you see how far we nonetheless need to go on this course of and it takes not just one or two generations to make a change.
One of many processes to create this modification is to have position fashions. If our feminine athletes in judo see throughout occasions that there are completely different profession choices, not simply refereeing or teaching, however to be in an official capability, I feel that is essential. In fact, not solely in these official positions, however we’re seeing extra girls in refereeing and training, some main males’s groups and I feel that is essential.
We’re doing our half and the doing the perfect in our space which is being recognised, we don’t need to be on this place simply because we’re girls. It will be significant for judo, and our sport is one that may state has equality, we have now the identical prize cash, the identical variety of classes.
Creator: Thea Cowen
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