November, 2014

REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS FROM International Canoe Federation —  Severely Lacking in Gender Equality, Universality and Good Governance
November 20th, 2014NewsWomenCAN Intl 0 Comments

**This is a request for the ICF to make decisions, processes, voting records, etc. available for the public and to reconsider several 2015 decisions.** In our November 17, 2014 blog post we presented data reflecting the male dominated European culture of the International Canoe Federation (ICF). The data show a nearly all male Board, an […]

UPDATE: International Canoe Federation Board 90% Male / Executive Committee and Committee Chairs 100% Male
November 17th, 2014NewsWomenCAN Intl 0 Comments

ISSUE: 90 years and counting - the International Canoe Federation (ICF) remains almost exclusively a male-only club, with European men dominating key leadership positions. This is their commitment to gender equality and universality? From the ICF website: “….in 1996, the IOC [International Olympic Committee] adopted a policy that ‘the International Federations should immediately establish […]