"If you’re not offering women the chance to play you’re excluding 50% of the population"

This excellent article details how Hackney RFC set up and women's rugby team - and why.

If you’re not offering women the chance to play rugby you’re excluding 50% of the population

Its a lesson - and policy - that should be applied to every sport club, not just rugby club, in the land. Too often women are seen as some sort of burden for sports clubs - remember Otago, as covered here recently. But the fact is that opening your club up and encouraging everyone in your local community to join makes a club/sport stronger... and richer (in every meaning of the word).