by admin | Feb 22, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
In her final year guiding the U.S. women’s national soccer team, Jill Ellis earned a $200,000 bonus for winning the 2019 World Cup and almost $750,000 overall, the highest amount for the coach of that acclaimed program but still well behind recent men’s leaders. Read...
by admin | Feb 22, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A day after Rudy Giuliani appeared on a podcast and shared an inappropriate story about Michelle Wie West, the LPGA player took to social media to express her disgust with the former New York City mayor. Wie West on Friday called it “unsettling to hear of this highly...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The Washington Spirit on Wednesday announced the addition of a high-profile group of investors representing sports, business and politics, including Chelsea Clinton and Jenna Bush Hager. The daughters of former U.S. presidents were joined by 40 other new investors,...
by admin | Feb 19, 2021 | #MeToo, Leadership, SEW
The selection of Seiko Hashimoto as president represented an abrupt turn after the Olympic committee had apparently intended to name another man in his 80s. Bending to intense criticism from abroad and social media activism at home, the Tokyo Olympic organizing...
by admin | Feb 18, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Shortly after dismissing the team’s general manager, the Mets also fired Ryan Ellis, a hitting coordinator whose inappropriate behavior was first reported in 2018. The Mets said in a statement on Wednesday that the case had been investigated at the time and Ellis was...
by admin | Feb 16, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
“He didn’t buy any tickets from me. But he did ask, ‘What do you really want to do?’ I told him I wanted to be an NBA general manager one day,” Nichols said in a recent phone interview. “He said, ‘Why are you in sales?’ ” Nichols inched closer to her dream job this...
by admin | Feb 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Major League Baseball celebrated the hiring of a woman as a sign of progress on diversity in its executive ranks. Every comparable hire over the last two years has been a white man. In a sport dominated by men — specifically, at the top, by white men — Ng symbolized...
by admin | Feb 16, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Yoshiro Mori, the 83-year-old who headed the Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizing committee, announced his resignation on Friday after an uproar over remarks demeaning women, including saying that female colleagues talk too long at meetings. But the leadership change also...
by admin | Feb 16, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Recent incidents have served as a “wake-up call” for the sport, leading to an update to its harassment and discrimination policy. “I’m dismayed that after 42 years since the decision came down basically saying that women reporters should be treated equally to men, the...
by admin | Feb 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Through the end of the 2019-2020 season, all NFL officials wore fitted ball caps, the kind without a large hole in the back. That meant Thomas, as the lone female member of the league’s officiating corps, had no choice but to tuck her hair up into the cap....
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