by admin | Jun 29, 2022 | Pay Equity, SEW
If you drive through a canyon, past a candle shop cloaked in wandering vines, and turn down a dirt road, you enter the Del Mar Polo Fields, training home of the NWSL’s San Diego Wave. It’s also home to the Surf Cup and many other youth cups—and for quite a few of...
by admin | Jun 20, 2022 | Leadership, Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Title IX, the federal legislation mandating equal opportunities for men’s and women’s participation in sports, turns 50 on June 23. The golden anniversary offers opportunities to recognize the advancements of women’s athletics, such as the pioneering collective...
by admin | Jun 15, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Spain’s female footballers will receive the same bonuses as their male counterparts as part of a new five-year agreement, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced on Tuesday. The deal will also see players receive money from future sponsorship...
by admin | Jun 13, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
WNBA players didn’t even have a contract for the first two years of the league’s existence, and it would be six years before they got free agency. Not until 2005, after the U.S. women had already won two World Cups and two Olympic gold medals, was U.S. Soccer...
by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
What can we say about the W? It is the oldest running professional women’s league in the country — that alone is huge. With women’s sports leagues struggling to last more than a few seasons in recent decades, the WNBA in many ways can serve as a North Star. Read...
by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Pay Equity, SEW
In February, the women of the US Women’s National Team finally got some good news in their fight for equal pay: the US Soccer Federation – their employer, whom they’d very publicly sued for gender discrimination in March 2019 – had finally...
by admin | May 30, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
When U.S. soccer star Alex Morgan played in the 2015 Women’s World Cup, merchandise for the victorious U.S. team was in such short supply that her family couldn’t find any. So her father printed a flag and his daughter’s name on a few dozen T-shirts for family and...
by admin | May 23, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Serena Williams has claimed numerous records throughout her illustrious career. And, now, her greatness has been immortalized in a different arena. Goldin Auctions founder Ken Goldin tweeted Sunday a 2003 Serena Williams NetPro signed patch rookie card sold for a...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The push for equal gender pay in sports got a shot in the arm this week when the U.S. Soccer Federation announced that players for the men’s and women’s national teams would get equal compensation. Yet while the U.S. soccer teams have achieved parity,...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Allyson Felix has been tapped as an ambassador for Omega. On Thursday, the five-time track and field Olympian was named an ambassador for the Swiss luxury watch company. Felix joins a growing family of athletes who are also Omega ambassadors, including other Olympians...
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