by admin | Aug 23, 2022 | Leadership, Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
When the U.S. women’s national soccer team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit in early March 2019, few thought it’d play out with a $24 million settlement almost three full years later (more than $40 million less than what was originally requested)....
by admin | Aug 22, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Within three years of finishing college, Emma Bates was the best female marathoner in the United States. She won the national title in 2018 and was third at the half-marathon championships in 2019. She made her major marathon debut later that year, in Chicago, and...
by admin | Aug 22, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
U.S. women’s sports are becoming a hot investment vehicle for networks. Soccer and basketball in particular are becoming hot-ticket rights packages. Why it matters: For decades, women’s sports were largely neglected by the media. Now that they’re...
by admin | Aug 15, 2022 | Leadership, Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The proposed $24 million settlement between U.S. women soccer players and the sport’s American governing body was given preliminary approval Thursday by a federal judge, who scheduled a Dec. 5 hearing for final approval. U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted...
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...
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