by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
What can we say about the W? It is the oldest running professional women’s league in the country — that alone is huge. With women’s sports leagues struggling to last more than a few seasons in recent decades, the WNBA in many ways can serve as a North Star. Read...
by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Oklahoma is on to the semifinals after a 7-2 win over Texas. The scoring started early with a two-run home run from Jocelyn Alo. Texas responded with a run of its own in the bottom of the first to make it a one-run game. The Sooners broke it wide open in fifth with...
by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
France’s Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic have earned their second women’s doubles championship at Roland Garros as a team with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over the American pairing of singles runner-up Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula. Sunday’s...
by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
For 68 minutes, Iga Swiatek captivated the tennis world. On Saturday, her blistering, athletic play dismantled teenage phenom Coco Gauff, 6-1, 6-3, and Swiatek emerged as the women’s singles champion at the 2022 French Open. Read More
by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Members of the Boston Celtics wore T-shirts with “WE ARE BG” written across them at practice Saturday ahead of Game 2 of the NBA Finals in support of WNBA superstar Brittney Griner, who remains detained in Russia. “The shirts were super important not...
by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
American tennis star Coco Gauff lost in her first Grand Slam final appearance on Saturday, 6–1, 6–3, to Iga Świątek in the French Open. Even though making it to the match as an 18-year-old is an incredible feat, Gauff was visibly upset after the singles final...
by admin | Jun 5, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Madison Clinger who was the first woman to be the University of Miami’s mascot. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the NCAA who still need to address a significant rise in suicides on college...
by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Washington Mystics were already planning to have their Wear Orange game raising awareness of gun violence Friday night. The grocery store shooting in Buffalo on May 14 and the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 had already left vocal gun control advocate...
by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA hopes to expand by two teams before the 2024 season, commissioner Cathy Engelbert told The Athletic. A new expansion franchise would mark the WNBA’s first since the Atlanta Dream’s inaugural season in 2008. Read More
by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Pay Equity, SEW
In February, the women of the US Women’s National Team finally got some good news in their fight for equal pay: the US Soccer Federation – their employer, whom they’d very publicly sued for gender discrimination in March 2019 – had finally...
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