The European Women and Sport

• is a free-standing group which consists of representatives and contact persons related to or interested in gender equality work of non-governmental or governmental sports organisations and bodies in their respective countries;

• aims at promoting the national equality work in sports and at disseminating information with European sports organisations and bodies at non-governmental and governmental level;

• counts at present 41 member countries represented by 44 contact persons; analyses the need of action and develops recommendations for equality work as reflected by the biannually organised EWS Conferences.