by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Megan Rapinoe did not plan to propose to Sue Bird by the pool on a lazy afternoon in Antigua last fall, but Megan Rapinoe is not a big planner. She tends to do things in the moment, when they feel right. One of the defining plays of her decade-long international...
by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Tom Brady’s social media has been more active since the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback won his seventh Super Bowl last month. Over the weekend, he used his Twitter account to hype his niece, Maya Brady, a slugging redshirt freshman on the UCLA Bruins...
by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Andi Sullivan was chosen as the No. 1 pick by the Washington Spirit in the 2018 National Women’s Soccer League College Draft, she was heralded as the beginning of the next generation of American footballers. She came into the league as a tested member of the U.S....
by admin | Mar 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
As a young child I can still vividly remember watching the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, mesmerized by Dominique Dawes, as she became the first Black person of any nationality or gender to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. I grew up listening to friends talk...
by admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
HBO Max and CNN Films are teaming on a feature doc about the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s ongoing fight for equal pay. Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine are behind LFG, which chronicles the class-action, gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer...
by admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Six years ago, motor sports executive Beth Paretta thought of a new, exciting idea. She was leaving her role at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and already noticed a shortage of qualified female engineers. “At that point, I was looking at this in a broad way, and I met with...
by admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Amanda Nunes continued her dominance over women in the UFC, submitting a badly overmatched Megan Anderson with an armbar in just two minutes, three seconds Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 259 at Apex. Nunes, widely considered the greatest female fighter of...
by admin | Mar 7, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SEW
“Blondes with big breasts, and ‘pretty girls,’” is apparently Les Miles type. LSU released a report revealing the university had considered firing football coach Les Miles because of his behavior with the female student workers. Within hours of the report being...
by admin | Mar 7, 2021 | Representation, SEW
We’ve got a battle for slalom and you can round up the usual suspects. Mikaela Shiffrin rallied for a spectacular second run to overcome a 0.27-second deficit to overcome — surprise — Slovakian Petra Vlhova for the American’s 69th career World Cup win of her career, a...
by admin | Mar 7, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Kansas athletic director Jeff Long announced on Friday that he has placed Les Miles on administrative leave following consecutive days of reports concerning his behavior towards women students while at LSU. The University of Kansas will also conduct its own...
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