by admin | Oct 18, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
After allegations of abuse in women’s football surfaced in recent weeks in the US, Venezuela and Australia, the sport’s world governing body FIFA fears they could be the “tip of the iceberg.” Joyce Cook, FIFA’s Chief Education and Social...
by admin | Oct 18, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
There were, most appallingly, the women. By the dozens over the years. Such as some members of the Washington Football Team’s cheerleading squad, who were included in lewd videos secretly produced without their knowledge, videos two former team employees said were...
by admin | Oct 15, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone has said she is “heartbroken” over allegations of abusive behaviour and sexual misconduct in the National Women’s Soccer League and added that her organisation is committed to investigating the “abhorrent...
by admin | Oct 14, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Four elite gymnasts are calling on Congress to dissolve the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee’s board of directors, alleging the body fostered a culture of abuse and ignored serial sexual abuse by Larry Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics team doctor. “We...
by admin | Oct 14, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
In response to repeated heckling at an away game last Thursday that was allegedly sexual in nature, the Hartford High School (White River Junction, Vermont) girls soccer team walked off the field with six minutes to play. When the Hurricanes next took the field, just...
by admin | Oct 13, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Matildas players have suffered “abhorrent” abuse on social media following claims of sexual abuse and harassment within women’s soccer, their union has announced. Matildas great Lisa De Vanna has alleged she suffered same-sex sexual harassment, abuse...
by admin | Oct 13, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Distance runner Mary Cain, whose career fizzled after what she has called four miserable years at the Nike Oregon Project, has filed a $20 million lawsuit against her former coach, Alberto Salazar, and their employer, Nike. Cain accused Salazar of emotionally abusing...
by admin | Oct 13, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
National Football League cheerleaders are calling on the NFL to release its full report into workplace culture after allegations surfaced that coaches had secretly distributed nude photos of them by email. The emails, first reported by the New York TimesMonday, were...
by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Late last year, the founder and longtime sponsor of the National Women’s Soccer League walked out the door. After starting the league in 2013, U.S. Soccer handed the office keys to executives hired to run the league — most notably a new commissioner, Lisa Baird,...
by admin | Oct 11, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
USWNT and Orlando Pride forward Alex Morgan has said women have been pulled away from playing soccer because of “failures” in how the system is set up for them but added that things are changing as players stand up to their employers. Morgan was speaking...
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