Maggie Alphonsi MBE spoke on her transition from rugby to presenting sport.
“Since retiring from playing rugby and moving into broadcasting, I’m much more aware of the men to women imbalance in presenting roles and on the administration side of rugby. I had to put myself out there as the only female pundit on men’s sport and want to encourage other women to do the same so it becomes normal to hear women commentating on sport across all subjects”.
Nick Rust added;
“Horseracing has plenty of positive stories in terms of women competing on a level playing field. Female jockeys are literally shining beacon’s, but there are not enough of them at leading level. There has also been a shift of more women in racecourse management roles but we have not conquered things yet and there is work to be done with regard to improving horseracing gender diversity in the administration, participation and engagement side of the sport”.
