by admin | Apr 6, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Throughout my childhood, playing tennis with my sister Serena in our hometown of Compton, California, I always dreamed of winning tournaments like Wimbledon. Then, when I finally got there, I was struck by the inequality. When I won Wimbledon for the first time in...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The ruling, when it eventually came, could not have been more clear. One of soccer’s six regional bodies had engaged in discriminatory behavior against a female official by hindering her chances of getting a seat on its board and a leadership position with the sport’s...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
If I said a golfer had a total driving distance for the week of 323 yards, you might ask how high that golfer finished on the leaderboard of the PGA Tour event he was playing. If I told you that 323 yards was for a golfer on the LPGA, you might not believe me. Read...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The last time VanDerveer and the Cardinal won the NCAA women’s basketball title, it was eight months before the very first text message was ever sent. That 1992 championship was Stanford’s second in three years. No one could have imagined how long it would...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Never again let someone from the NCAA call women’s basketball or any other sport a “cost.” Connecticut’s Paige Bueckers is not a cost. She is the entire damn point. The real cost, the real burden in this iniquitous, contemptible system is the legion of skimmers and...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Even in the cavernous Alamodome and in front of a national TV audience, Adia Barnes saw only the faces in the huddle. Her Arizona Wildcats had slayed a giant, and she had one more message for those doubters who had underestimated her team. Read More
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Don’t you feel silly now, NCAA. March Madness began with the uproar over the NCAA’s blatant disregard of women’s basketball, Mark Emmert and his cronies apparently believing it to be an extracurricular activity rather than an actual sport. It is finishing with the...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
For the second time in three years, Augusta National Golf Club majestically elevated the profile of women’s amateur golf Saturday, doing its best to show a stodgy and often misogynistic sport what its future looks like, if it truly cares to notice. Read More
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Fifty years ago, Carole Oglesby helped establish a governing body for women in college athletics at a time when the National Collegiate Athletics Association only oversaw men’s sports. When she saw images earlier this month of the inferior training facilities provided...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
On Transgender Day of Visibility, the National Women’s Soccer League announced their new policy on transgender and nonbinary athletes – a bit of a misnomer, given the policy does not mention nonbinary athletes in the body of its text. They joined a small but...
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