00:03One of Australia's most decorated Paralympians, Louise Savage, has been amongst a small number
00:09of women coaching at the elite level for the past 20 years.
00:13It's been really good to see that infrastructure and also the investment into women's coaching.
00:18It hasn't been an easy path but she wants to see more women join her.
00:22I think it's important that we encourage them to continue on in those roles and to show
00:27the identity and what we can bring as female coaches.
00:30We've had a history where we've just had male coaches coaching our best athletes.
00:34We want to make sure the right people are coaching our athletes at the right time, female or male.
00:40The AIS has been focused on growing the number of female head coaches in high performance
00:45sport over the past four years.
00:47In that time the figure has doubled to 26 per cent.
00:50That's it, faster, faster, faster.
00:52But it's found there are still barriers including poor recruitment processes, outdated work
00:57structures and misogynistic and abusive behaviour.
01:00When you talk about culture I don't think that's actually unique to just high performance coaches.
01:05As a system we've had a real focus in the last couple of years of wellbeing being fundamental
01:11to high performance.
01:12And there are still few elite coaches with disability.
01:15It's unfortunate that there aren't as many.
01:17I'm not sure of all the barriers that exist.
01:21I suppose I've negotiated quite a lot myself but there are more people there now that can help.
01:26The AIS is now looking to work with more sports to go to the next level.
01:31if in the gwenda model they can help.
01:31The AIS Evade
01:32The AIS Evade
01:32I just wanted to be able to get educated sor.
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