{"id":43466,"date":"2022-04-12T14:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T05:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/12\/black-ferns-report-favouritism-body-shaming-and-cultural-insensitivity-in-scathing-review"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T05:28:42","slug":"black-ferns-report-favouritism-body-shaming-and-cultural-insensitivity-in-scathing-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43466","title":{"rendered":"Black Ferns report favouritism, body-shaming and cultural insensitivity in scathing review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review involved interviews with 50 current and former players, managers and coaches of New Zealand women\u2019s rugby team <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s governing rugby body has failed to properly support women\u2019s high performance rugby, with some players reporting favouritism, ghosting, body-shaming and culturally insensitive comments, a scathing review of one of the world\u2019s top women\u2019s rugby teams has found.<\/p>\n<p>The more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzrugby.co.nz\/assets\/Black-Ferns-review-2022.pdf\">30-page review<\/a>, which came with 26 recommendations, was instigated after a senior Black Ferns player \u2013 Te Kura Ngata-Aerengamate \u2013 posted on social media that she had suffered a mental health breakdown following the Black Ferns\u2019 2021 end-of-year tour to England and France.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/12\/black-ferns-report-favouritism-body-shaming-and-cultural-insensitivity-in-scathing-review\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review involved interviews with 50 current and former players, managers and coaches of New Zealand women\u2019s rugby team New Zealand\u2019s governing rugby body has failed to properly support women\u2019s high performance rugby, with some players reporting favourit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,776,223,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-rugby-union-team","category-rugby-union","category-sport","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43467,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43466\/revisions\/43467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}