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Invisible barriers: Women and sports governance in Canada - Play the Game 2009 (PP Pdf.)
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Erin Durant is Student-at-Law at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (www.blg.com) and is a graduate of Queen’s University Faculty of Law. Erin has focused her studies and her articles on the areas of civil litigation, labour & employment, entertainment, sport, international trade and contract law. While at Queen’s University, Erin received numerous awards including the course prizes in health law, mental health law, criminal law and labour law.
Prior to law school, Erin received an honours B.A. in history, magna cum laude, from the University of Ottawa, where her research was centred on the history of sport and recreation in Canada, North America and the former Soviet Union.
Erin is also an accomplished athlete that has won provincial medals and represented her province at the Canadian and Eastern Canadian Softball Championships. Erin has also competed provincially in figure skating, basketball and track and field.
Erin worked as a program co-ordinator at Softball Canada in the summer of 2006. She managed the Parmalat Learn to Play program which targets increasing youth participation numbers within the sport. This program has been adopted extensively across Canada. She also contributed research that was utilized in the creation of the Softball Canada Long Term Athlete Development Model.
Erin is currently conducting a gender based analysis on the Canadian Government’s funding of the various Canadian national sport organisations and is involved with various gender equity advocacy initiatives.
Erin is also the founder of the website Women in Sport International (http://womeninsportinternational.blogspot.com). This blog is designed as a forum to discuss the tough issues that address women in sport around the globe. The various blog contributors have various opinions on gender bias in sport and the blog is part of the Women Talk Sport network of blogs (http://www.womentalksports.com).
Erin is also a writer for Jays Prospects (www.jaysprospects.com).
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