by admin | Aug 4, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Competing in sports is one of the most empowering vehicles for coming into your own as a young woman – and 23-time Grand Slam singles title winner Serena Williams knows this. Williams, who is featured in Secret Deodorant’s new Just #WatchMe Olympics...
by admin | Aug 4, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The NCAA has for years treated women’s basketball as inferior to men’s, a stinging external review found, dramatically undervaluing and undermining the women’s game in ways that go far beyond the substandard weight rooms exposed at its championships in March. The...
by admin | Aug 4, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
For female Olympians, the debate over uniforms has taken center stage alongside their athletic performances. U.S. beach volleyball players April Ross and Alix Klineman wear bikinis because of heat and sand, though Ross acknowledged that the two-piece bathing suit also...
by admin | Jul 28, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Missy Park, CEO and founder of women’s apparel company Title Nine, was watching LFG—the HBO documentary on the fight for equal pay in women’s soccer—when she had a million-dollar, rage-induced epiphany. “I was just getting so mad,” she says. “Yes, with U.S....
by admin | Jul 23, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
When it comes to sports that attract fervent attention at the Olympics, gymnastics is always a top contender. Pulse-pounding and entertaining, the gravity-defying skills exhibited by athletes is unlike anything else seen at the Games. However, thanks to the Covid-19...
by admin | Jul 22, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
In a three-week span this spring, Olympic superstar Simone Biles ended a six-year partnership with Nike to join Gap’s Athleta brand, and Breanna Stewart, the four-time NCAA and two-time Seattle Storm champion, announced she was signing with...
by admin | Jul 20, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
Fresh from her breakthrough Grand Slam performance at Wimbledon, world number three Aryna Sabalenka is heading to the 2020 Olympics determined to win a medal for Belarus and says she has no reason to fear any of her rivals in Tokyo. The 23-year-old has won 10 titles...
by admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
This tennis champ isn’t just breaking records on the court—in fact, Naomi Osaka‘s net worth proves that she’s the top-earning female athlete in a single year, ever. But how did she get to earn that much money? Well, let’s just say that when you’re already a...
by admin | Jul 13, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW, Uncategorized
As the long winter of the 2021 NWSL preseason turned toward spring, one fact at Gotham FC was already clear: Things were about to look very different in New Jersey. The club had just announced a full-team rebrand, tossing the Sky Blue moniker aside as they moved to a...
by admin | Jul 13, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
When we marvel at female athletes beating world records at the Olympics, few of us stop to ask: Who’s watching their kids right now? Allyson Felix, the most decorated track and field Olympian in history, knows exactly what it’s like to be worried about childcare while...
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