{"id":90,"date":"2018-03-17T15:38:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d12163403.u51.c10.heinstant.com\/sport\/?p=90"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:52:27","slug":"female-role-models-in-sport-need-to-be-celebrated-nzl-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/female-role-models-in-sport-need-to-be-celebrated-nzl-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMALE ROLE MODEL NEED TO BE CELEBRATED &#8211; NZL Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sport and Recreation Minister says he&#8217;s committed to getting more New Zealand women into sport.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Grant Robertson today released <a href=\"https:\/\/sportnz.org.nz\/assets\/Uploads\/The-Value-of-Sport-Main-Report-FINAL-March-2018.pdf\">a study by Sport New Zealand,<\/a> which highlights the importance of sport to New Zealanders, and how it benefits individuals and communities.<\/p>\n<p>A report by Sport New Zealand found 60 percent of boys were participating in club sport, compared to 49 percent of girls. <\/p>\n<p>The report canvassed 1500 people including many in the sport and recreation sector.<\/p>\n<p>It found almost three quarters of adults participated in sport over the past week, compared to nine out of 10 young people.<\/p>\n<p>Just one in five adults belonged to a sports club and 9 percent had gym memberships.<\/p>\n<p>The report also found 51 percent of young people were part of a school sports team.<\/p>\n<p>However, the report said 60 percent of boys were participating in club sport, compared to 49 percent of girls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/national\/352732\/female-role-models-in-sport-need-to-be-celebrated-minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sport and Recreation Minister says he&#8217;s committed to getting more New Zealand women into sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womensportinternational.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}