All six Area Associations of World Athletics committed to specific actions and targets to advance gender equity within their organisations and the sport at the Gender Leadership Conference held in Tokyo on Wednesday (17).

World Athletics began a process of gender leadership reform under President Sebastian Coe as part of broader governance reforms that were rolled out in 2016. A target was set of achieving gender parity on the World Athletics Council by 2027, and that was achieved four years early, at the World Athletics Congress in Budapest in 2023.

All World Athletics Commissions have also achieved gender parity and attention has now turned to assisting the Area Associations and Member Federations to reach the same standards.  

Stephanie Hightower, Chair of World Athletics’ Gender Leadership Taskforce, said the Area Association and Member Federation commitments at the conference were designed to accelerate the advance of World Athletics’ reforms through all parts of the sport.

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