by admin | Mar 12, 2023 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Mikaela Shiffrin who tied the alpine skiing World Cup wins record this week. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down to the larger sports industry that continues to fail women.
by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Australian swimming star Kaylee McKeownsmashed the women’s 200 metres backstroke world record at the NSW State Championships in Sydney, Australia on Friday 10 March. The 21-year-old reigning Olympic champion won the final of the discipline in 2:03.14 breaking the...
by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Representation, SEW
You really have to take a few steps back to best take in the full majesty of Fifa’s lack of foresight. They looked at the controversies over the hosting of the men’s World Cup in Qatar. They looked at the demographic of the women’s game and its audience. They...
by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Since before this season started, Mikaela Shiffrin eschewed talk about the career World Cup wins record of 86, which has stood since 1989, believing it was too far away. Shiffrin, who began the October-to-March campaign with 74 wins, dismissed any chase storylines...
by admin | Mar 9, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Brittney Griner’s return to the WNBA with the Phoenix Mercury will be the first of 25 regular-season broadcasts on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 this season, it was announced Wednesday. The networks will also air playoff games, and the WNBA All-Star Game will make its ABC...
by admin | Mar 8, 2023 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
In International Women’s Day it is important to celebrate and acknowledge the progress made towards equality and the achievements of women in sport. It is perhaps even more important, though, to look at how much more still needs to be done. After a phenomenal European...
by admin | Mar 8, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Alexandria Loutitt ski jumps best when she can get in her bubble where she says it feels like “someone has hit pause on the rest of the world.” It must have felt like an awfully long pause at the world championships in Slovenia last week, when she flew 136.5 metres,...
by admin | Mar 8, 2023 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
With less than five months to go until the Women’s World Cup, Fifa was facing a growing crisis. Three of the teams hoping to go into the tournament as contenders were instead in disarray. The France captain Wendie Renard, recognised by Fifa as one of the best players...
by admin | Mar 7, 2023 | Representation, SEW
“If males got boobs during puberty there would be a free sports bra in every locker and we wouldn’t even be having this conversation,” says Lauren Fleshman, laughing but not joking. “When teams issue uniforms a sports bra should be part of that uniform.”...
by admin | Mar 6, 2023 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Canada Soccer and the country’s women’s national team struck a deal on interim funding for 2022, helping to resolve an issue that had the team threatening to strike last month. Canada Soccer said that the deal reflects that of the men’s national team with regards to...
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