MADRID, 7 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
María Tato, former director of Women’s Football in the RFEF and currently in the international area, Asunción Loriente, president of the Spanish Rowing Federation, Mercedes Coghen, coordinator of the group of Women Managers of the Spanish Sports Association (ADESP), and Marisa Sáenz , executive director of the Real Madrid Graduate School-Universidad Europea, were the protagonists this Monday of the third and final round table hosted by the Higher Sports Council (CSD) on the occasion of ‘Women’s Week’.
The four directives discussed the present and future of female leadership in sport, with topics such as conciliation, co-responsibility, training, quotas, glass ceiling and visibility as some of the issues analyzed, the CSD said in a press release.
The first two round tables were held last Friday. Under the title ‘The role of the journalist in the media’, Elisa Lasso, a journalist for LaSexta, Almudena Rivera, an editor for Marca, Eleonora Giovio, a columnist for El País, and Ana José Cancio, a journalist for RTVE, spoke about their experience as journalists specializing in sports and the obstacles they have encountered as women in a predominantly male environment.
In addition, the second gathering that day dealt with the informative treatment of women’s sports in the media and featured Rocío Martínez, presenter of Sports on Antena 3 News, Lourdes García Campos, editor and presenter of TVE, Juan Gutiérrez, deputy director of the newspaper AS and Gaspar Díez, Sports Editor-in-Chief of the Europa Press Agency, where the focus was placed on the importance of adapting the language to the new times and expanding the visibility that
athletes have in the media.
These round tables are the first part of a program that continues this Tuesday with the delivery of the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit to Patricia Campos, a former military pilot and one of the first women to coach a professional soccer team, while that on Wednesday the ‘Women’s Week’ will close with a photographic exhibition with snapshots of great Spanish athletes such as Carolina Marín,
Sandra Sánchez, Alexia Putellas or Lydia Valentin.