by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Chicago Sky star Candace Parker narrated a video essay celebrating the achievements of female athletes to bring Women’s History Month to a close. The video also represented a call to action to continue supporting and lifting up women’s...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
IN SOME WAYS, STILES WISHES her memories of that 2000-01 season could freeze at that airport homecoming. Before an 81-64 national semifinal loss to Purdue in which the Lady Bears scored 40 points fewer than they had four days earlier in winning the regional title...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Sedona Prince, a center on the University of Oregon women’s basketball team, shared a TikTok from the NCAA women’s basketball tournament earlier this month, it went viral. Her video compared the women’s weight room in San Antonio—a single small rack of dumbbells...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Top coaches in women’s college basketball pressed N.C.A.A. executives directly on Wednesday over what they have judged as chronic failures to promote and support the sport — longstanding tensions that have now ignited a public furor over disparities between this...
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
This year’s March Madness might have exposed gaps in gender equity in college sports, but for two Black women, the 2021 NCAA women’s tournament will always represent a moment when history was made. For the first time in NCAA women’s tournament...
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The world got its first extended look at Charli Collier this month during the NCAA Women’s Tournament, but WNBA teams have had eyes on her for a while now. Collier, a 22-year-old junior who will graduate this spring and enter the WNBA draft, saw her tourney run...
by admin | Mar 30, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SEW
To no one’s surprise, women are being treated with less respect than men. The N.C.A.A apologized on Friday, March 19, for the unequal workout facilities given to the women’s teams during the championship tournament. March is Women’s History Month,...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s one of the guiding principles of journalism, the reporter should never become the story. Every now and then though, you find a reporter’s story too good not to tell. In 2018, Dave Kindred received the PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary...
by admin | Mar 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
UConn freshman guard Paige Bueckers and South Carolina sophomore forward Aliyah Boston, who will attempt to lead their No. 1-seeded teams into the Elite Eight this weekend, were among college basketball players named finalists Friday for the 2021 John R. Wooden Award....
by admin | Mar 28, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight (once again) goes to soccer superstar, Megan Rapinoe. The USWNT member offered video testimony before the House Oversight Committee in Washington for Equal Pay Day. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the NCAA...
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