by admin | Apr 7, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Disney-owned ESPN hosted the women’s tournament, held in San Antonio. On Tuesday, it said the title game between Arizona and Stanford attracted an average of 4 million viewers on Sunday, peaking at 5.9 million. The network said it was the most-watched...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
Financial details revealed publicly for the first time show that the N.C.A.A.’s budget for the men’s tournament was nearly double that of the women’s tournament in 2019. Read More
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 4, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to coaches Dawn Staley of South Carolina and Adia Barnes of the team from Arizona who will make history as the first two Black women to head coaches in the same Final Four. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The world now knows Paige Bueckers and Jalen Suggs as freshman phenoms, the outrageously talented point guards leading the top-ranked collegiate teams in the country — the Connecticut women and the Gonzaga men — to their respective Final Fours this weekend. The close...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
There is a circular poetry to this NCAA women’s basketball tournament. It is beautiful and sad, a clash between the game’s evolution and the NCAA’s stagnant leadership in prompting gender equality. It is also instructive, how the sport keeps spinning its history...
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...
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