by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | #MeToo, Leadership, SEW
The Washington Football Team named Tanya Snyder as co-CEO on Tuesday — a significant shakeup to the franchise’s structure amid an ongoing investigation into sexual harassment allegations into the team’s workplace. She will share duties of CEO...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A little more than three years ago, we first heard that some cheerleaders for the Washington Football Team were subjected to inappropriate parading for the private pleasure of the club’s highest-spending ticket holders, all men, at a Costa Rican resort. The team’s...
by admin | Apr 11, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Natalia Dorantes, who was hired by the Washington Football Team as the first Latina Chief of Staff in the NFL. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Steve Waithe, a track and field coach at Northeastern,...
by admin | Apr 7, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Natalia Dorantes virtually attended the fifth annual NFL Women’s Careers in Football Forum in February, she had to introduce herself to Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera. That introduction turned into a conversation, which then blossomed into a...
by admin | Mar 3, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Last month the Washington Football Team settled claims brought by members of the all-female cheerleading squad, who alleged among other things that high-level team executives passed around a lewd video of the cheerleaders. Now the team is going in a...
by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Twenty former employees of the Washington Football Team who say they witnessed or endured sexual harassment by team executives demanded Thursday that the NFL make public its investigation into the team’s workplace. The letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell is part of a...
by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Several cheerleaders maintain they’re collateral damage in the team’s efforts to move on from a variety of controversies and scandals. They also detailed a culture of being underpaid and undervalued while the team made big bucks off their appearances. Read...
by admin | Jan 8, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
“While the Washington Football Team’s NFC East championship and team owner Dan Snyder’s decision to rename the franchise (though only after succumbing to political and investor pressure) are major victories in the fight for dismantling harmful stereotypes, the...
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