Women’s Sport Series – Olympic and Paralympic Games 2024: IOC and IPC make further progress on gender parity

The 2024 Olympic Games has been rightly celebrated for the fantastic progress in pursuit of gender equality, with this year’s Games having a 50:50 allocation of places for both genders, with 28 out of the 32 sports being fully gender-balanced, and with the medalled events being split more equally (with 152 medal events for the women, 157 medal events for the men and 20 mixed-gender medal events). The International Paralympic Committee is also striving to achieve gender parity for the Paralympic Games, focusing on organically increasing the number of female athletes participating in Para sport.