Female Friendly Sports Infrastructure Guidelines References
The following resources and references have been used throughout the guidelines.
Where available, hyperlinks for the references have been provided. Click on the links below to access the specific information.
- Inquiry into women and girls in sport and active recreation (PDF 916.8 KB)
- Victoria Police, Crime Prevention through Community Safety (2007)
- VicHealth, Physical Activity Strategy 2019-2023
- Queensland Government, Activate! Queensland Strategy
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Women in Sport State of Play (2013)
- Australian Football League, Female Football Club Guide (2016)
- Netball Australia, National Facilities Policy (2016)
- The State of Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Safer Design Guidelines for Victoria (2005)
- Sport England (2015), Active Design Principles
- Australian Football League (2015), Preferred Facility Guidelines
- Australian Government (2012) ,About Time! Women in Sport and Recreation in Australia
- Merri-bek City Council (2009), Active Women and Girls Volume: Strategy
- VicSport (2018), Good Governance Framework & Toolkit
- Cricket Australia Women and Girls Action Plan for Australian Cricket 2024-2034
- European Commission (2014), Gender Equality in Sport, Proposed Strategic Actions
- Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (2011), The Ideal Sports Club for Women
- Women In Sport (2015), What Sways Women to Play Sport
- Women In Sport (2015), Understanding Women’s Lives
- Women In Sport (2015), From Barriers to Benefits: The economic case for female participation in sports
- Clearing house for Sport, Women’s Sport
- Football Federation Victoria (2016), Increasing Female Participation Club Workbook
- Change Our Game Recruitment and Retention Guidelines for Women in Sport and Recreation
- Australian Womensport & Recreation Association (2013), A Charter for Active Australian Women
- Sport England (2015), This Girl Can
- Sport and Recreation Spatial (2014), Sport Participation in Victoria and the Contribution of Sport to Physical Activity Levels
- Department of Health & Human Services, Universal Design
- Municiple Association of Victoria (2012), Factsheet #1 Why Gender Matters: Ten Ways Local Government can Advance Gender Equity (PDF)
- Kotschwar, B. (2014), Women, Sports and Development – Does it Pay to Let Girls Play?, Peterson Institute for International Economics
- City of Whittlesea Gender Equity Action Plan 2021-2025
- Monash City Council – Active Monash Recreation Strategies & Policies
- Griffith University, Caroline Riot, Female Participation in Sport and Active Recreation
- Hanlon, C., Morris, T., & Nabbs, S. (2010). Establishing a successful physical activity program to recruit and retain women Sport Management Review, 13, 269-28
- Eime, R., Harvey, J., Charity, M., Casey., Westerbeek, H., & Payne, W. (2016) Age Profiles of Sport Participants, BMC Sport Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (2016),. 8146.0 Household Use of Information Technology, Australia 2014-2015
- Count Us In: Developing Physical Activity Programmes for Women (PDF 972.3 KB)
- The International Working Group on Women and Sport (2007), The Brighton Declaration on Women and Sport: Woman Sport and the Challenge of Change.