It may take time, but Golf Australia is hoping to see the benefits of change beyond the scoreboard
Chyloe Kurdas knows a thing or two about driving cultural change. As AFL Victoria’s female football development manager for over 10 years, she was a persistent and tireless advocate for a national competition for women and girls – which eventually came to fruition in the form of AFLW. As she detailed in her Ted talk in June this year, that process had many challenges, the biggest of all being “convincing senior key decision makers in the AFL that it could or should be done”.
Kurdas no longer works for the AFL, and has recently taken up the role of national female participation manager at Golf Australia. Now her portfolio includes Vision 2025: a seven-year plan for the future of women and girls in golf. But while the quest for a more gender equitable playing field (or course) is a familiar assignment for Kurdas, she will be heeding lessons learned to ensure change happens in a sustainable way.
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