Women win (2007)

Women Win uses sport as a strategy because:

• Provides access to women and girls to public spaces
• Build leadership skills and stimulate teamwork
• Develop girls’ and women’s sense of ownership over their bodies
• Increase women’s and girls’ self esteem so they are less likely to enter into violent relationships suffer depression become unwillingly pregnant or smoke or use drugs
• Challenge gender stereotypes, thereby reducing discrimination and breaking down entrenched attitudes, leading to, for example, higher school enrolment and completion.
• Contribute to the health and confidence of women and girls