A look at how gender equality is changing the Olympics

Event evolution

When women competed at the first Winter Games in 1924, they made up 4.3% of competitors, this year they are at 47%.

Women accounted for 45% of all competitors at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, up from 41% at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games in South Korea.

Not just the games

Women currently make up 45% of the Milano Cortina 2026 senior leadership and 55% of the volunteer applications were from women.

In 1992, an International Olympic Committee...