by admin | Mar 15, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The 2022 NWSL Challenge Cup has returned as the third installment of the competition begins on Friday when Racing Louisville FC and Kansas City Current clash and Pacific Northwest rivals OL Reign and Portland Thorns FC close out opening day. Opening weekend will...
by admin | Mar 15, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA has announced that their 26th annual draft will take place on April 11 this year. The 2022 Draft will return as an in-person event for the first time since 2019 at the Spring Studios and will be available on ESPN. Spring Studios is located in New York that...
by admin | Mar 15, 2022 | Representation, SEW
For the first time since 2000, the NCAA women’s basketball tournament will have as many teams as the men’s — 68, to be precise, starting with a “First Four” slate of games. The expansion of the field, announced in November, is the most notable among a package of...
by admin | Mar 15, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The striking thing about TIAA’s effort to promote awareness of the 30% gap between how much men and women make during their earning years, and thus are able to save for retirement, is how it factors into the plans of women’s basketball’s most significant figures at...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Guest Blogs, SEW
As the Russian invasion continues to escalate, Ukrainian athletes are showing the world they can persevere even with uncertainty at home. Ukraine has swept the podium twice at the Beijing Paralympics, earning several medals for their country. Iryna Bui led the charge,...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka was brought to tears by a heckler Saturday on the way to a 6-0, 6-4 loss to Veronika Kudermetova in the Indian Wells WTA hardcourt tournament. Japan’s Osaka, ranked 78th in the world after her third-round exit at the...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When Athletes Unlimited launched its inaugural basketball league in January, a major selling point of the league was the opportunity for players to compete professionally in the United States as an alternative to playing overseas. As outlined in an official statement,...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Two-time WNBA champion Candace Parker remembers seeing the weight-room disparities between the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments last year and thinking, ‘‘It’s a picture and video we’ve all seen a thousand times.’’ Images of the men’s rows and rows of benches, squat...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
On Friday at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, alpine skier Sheyne“Sheina” Vaspi became Israel’s first ever winter Paralympian. The 20-year-old Vaspi competed in the women’s giant slalom competition wearing a skirt over her racing suit. “It’s also a part of my religion and...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
U.S. statistics show women are still being paid less than men. Legendary Olympian Allyson Felix told CBS News that she wants the gender pay gap to change “completely.” Women earn 83 cents for every dollar men make, according to the 2021 numbers from...
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