by admin | Mar 28, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
United States men’s coach Jason Kreis admitted his squad is “devastated” not to be going to the Olympics after losing 2-1 to Honduras in CONCACAF qualifying in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday. The women’s team, however, had no problem...
by admin | Mar 28, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight (once again) goes to soccer superstar, Megan Rapinoe. The USWNT member offered video testimony before the House Oversight Committee in Washington for Equal Pay Day. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the NCAA...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
UConn’s Paige Bueckers and Iowa’s Caitlin Clark were once teammates playing for their country. On Saturday (1 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN App) in the 2021 NCAA women’s basketball tournament, their teams will face off with the country watching. Bueckers’...
by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
“Our analysis shows men’s sports are the appetizer, the main course and the dessert, and if there’s any mention of women’s sports it comes across as begrudging ‘eat your vegetables’ without the kind of bells and whistles and excitement with which they describe men’s...
by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The NCAA has hired a civil rights law firm to conduct a gender-equity review for its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments less than a week after the organization was widely criticized for disparities between the two tournaments. Read More
by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In early March, I talked with a pair of researchers at the University of Southern California who had recently published a study — funded by the Tony Hawk Foundation — showing how skateboarding helps build resilience among young skaters, and helps them form communities...
by admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Representation, SEW
BJJ star Craig Jones announced that he is set to have an inter-gender grappling match with nine-time world champion Gabi Garcia. Jones, who is one of the best grapplers in the world today, stated that since the typical organizers of BJJ events “wouldn’t touch”...
by admin | Mar 25, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Support for Snyder’s purchase comes as the N.F.L.’s investigation into sexual harassment claims made against former Washington Football Team executives nears an end. Commissioner Roger Goodell may address the findings collected by Beth Wilkinson, a Washington-based...
by admin | Mar 25, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
Megan Rapinoe has taken her fight for equal pay to Congress as she testified on Wednesday in front of a committee examining “the economic harm caused by longstanding gender inequalities, particularly for women of color”. The Olympic and World Cup champion testified at...
by admin | Mar 25, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Amid mounting pressure from players, coaches and administrators over differences between the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, NCAA President Mark Emmert on Tuesday wrote that he would be calling for “an independent review” of the processes that led to the...
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