by admin | Dec 28, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
With Brittney Griner now safely back home for the holidays, the conversation has shifted. In an interview with TMZ, ESPN broadcaster Mark Jackson was not asked about her captivity in Russia—but rather why she was there in the first place. Like many WNBA players,...
by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The reason Brittney Griner is the sports story of the year, isn’t solely because of her bravery while being “wrongfully detained” in Russia. It isn’t just that she became a symbol of strength that unified large swaths of the sports world and...
by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Audiences are now consuming seven times more than in 2012, which is largely a result of a five-fold increase in women’s fixtures being broadcast live on mainstream television compared to a decade ago. According to UK-based charity the Women’s Sport Trust, a record...
by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Olympian Allyson Felix holds the title of “most decorated female” in track and field. But above her career in sports, Felix is a wife, a mom, an activist, and most recently, a designer for Athleta after the brand tapped her as its first athletic partner. This...
by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lashinda Demus will now get a gold medal for the 400-meter hurdle race from the 2012 London Olympic Games due to Russian Olympian Natalya Antyukh being stripped of her gold medal proof of doping 10 years later. On Wednesday, Dec. 21, the Athletics Integrity Unit...
by admin | Dec 26, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When Chloe Kelly’s 2022 began, the idea that a photo of herself would capture one of the defining moments of women’s football history in England, let alone of the year, was far from her mind. Kelly was battling back from an anterior cruciate ligament injury that ended...
by admin | Dec 26, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kathy Whitworth set a benchmark in golf no one has ever touched, whether it was Sam Snead or Tiger Woods, Mickey Wright or Annika Sorenstam. Her 88 victories are the most by any player on a single professional tour. Whitworth, whose LPGA Tour victories spanned nearly...
by admin | Dec 26, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin‘s World Cup season may be defined by a busy stretch of eight technical races over 15 days, beginning this week, live on Peacock. Shiffrin goes into the first race, Tuesday’s giant slalom in Semmering, Austria, five World Cup victories shy of Lindsey...
by admin | Dec 23, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Forbes announced the world’s highest-paid female athletes in 2022 on Thursday and tennis star Naomi Osaka snagged the No. 1 spot. The 25 women mentioned in Forbes’ list accumulated an estimated $285 million this year, before agents’ fees and taxes. Of the 25 spots...
by admin | Dec 23, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The House has passed a bill that ensures equal compensation for US women competing in international events, a piece of legislation that came out of the US women’s soccer team’s long battle to be paid as much as the men. The Equal Pay for Team USA Act, passed late...
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