by admin | Jul 31, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Three fencers on the men’s US Olympic team were wearing pink masks when they arrived Friday in Tokyo for their opening match against Japan. But the coordinated masks weren’t a coincidence; they were a planned protest by the trio against a teammate who is...
by admin | Jul 30, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Simone Biles did not just go to Tokyo to compete. In an April interview with NBC, she said she’d decided to participate in her second Olympic Games, at 24, because she wanted to hold gymnastics leaders accountable. Biles is the only victim of Larry Nassar...
by admin | Jul 27, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
At an Olympics aiming to set the highest level of television standards, the head of broadcasting at the Tokyo Games is trying to banish overly sexualized images of female athletes. “Sport appeal, not sex appeal” is one mantra Olympic officials push in an effort to...
by admin | Jul 27, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Ten days after fencer Alen Hadzic secured a spot as an alternate on the US Olympic team, a group of women took their concerns about him straight to the top. The six women fencers, including two Olympic athletes, wrote to the Olympic committee that Hadzic should...
by admin | Jul 27, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice released a report about the FBI’s investigation into former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar that spotlighted what survivors like me have known to be true: the entire system is failing athletes. The FBI failed to...
by admin | Jul 23, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
German female gymnasts will choose whether they want to wear full body-suits in Sunday’s qualifications at the Tokyo Olympics after receiving accolades for donning the outfits in the past in a stand against the sexualisation of their sport. The German team wore...
by admin | Jul 14, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The Justice Department’s inspector general released a long-awaited report on Wednesday that sharply criticized the F.B.I.’s handling of the sexual abuse case involving Lawrence G. Nassar, the former doctor for the U.S.A. Gymnastics national team and Michigan State...
by admin | Jul 2, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
The so-called investigative report on the nasty skirt-clutching culture inside the Washington Football Team has vanished like invisible ink. And somehow the NFL thinks it can make it all right by handing Tanya Snyder the mop and broom. Great. That’s the perfect NFL...
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 | Jun 28, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
The email showed up at 3:29 p.m. on a Friday in February. In 31 minutes, there would be an “Important Meeting”—the only two words in the subject line of a Washington Football Team executive’s email. Candess Correll decided she wouldn’t be joining the Zoom call. She...
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