The “glacial” growth in the number of women coaches at the elite level has forced Australian Olympic sports to up their game in order to meet community expectations and avoid the federal government adopting the “stick” of funding cuts.
Fewer than one in five coaches at the Paris Games were women, or 18.6%, up barely three percentage points from Tokyo, and from 9% in Rio in 2016. Some sports recorded lower figures, including elite athletics at 12% and golf at 6%.
