by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Twenty former employees of the Washington Football Team who say they witnessed or endured sexual harassment by team executives demanded Thursday that the NFL make public its investigation into the team’s workplace. The letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell is part of a...
by admin | Feb 26, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Several cheerleaders maintain they’re collateral damage in the team’s efforts to move on from a variety of controversies and scandals. They also detailed a culture of being underpaid and undervalued while the team made big bucks off their appearances. Read...
by admin | Feb 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Through the end of the 2019-2020 season, all NFL officials wore fitted ball caps, the kind without a large hole in the back. That meant Thomas, as the lone female member of the league’s officiating corps, had no choice but to tuck her hair up into the cap....
by admin | Feb 8, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
In the business of NFL cheerleading, where many women are underpaid and often undervalued as second-class members of their organizations, the bare minimum is the maximum effort. Read more here.
by admin | Feb 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Two women will coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in this year’s Super Bowl, a milestone in the N.F.L.’s gender diversity efforts. Women in football hope their presence quickly stops being noteworthy. Read in Full.
by admin | Feb 4, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When it comes to making history at the Super Bowl, when Tom Brady will go for his seventh title, both Locust and Javadifar said they plan to just focus on doing their jobs, like every other coach on the field. Read in Full
by admin | Jan 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Washington promoted Jennifer King to assistant running backs coach, making her the first Black woman with a full-time N.F.L. coaching job, amid increasing scrutiny on the diversity of the league’s hiring. Read in full at the NY Times.
by admin | Jan 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sarah Thomas will next month become the first woman to officiate a Super Bowl, the NFL announced Tuesday. Thomas will serve as a down judge on referee Carl Cheffers’ crew at Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida. Read the full story on ESPN
by admin | Jan 13, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
The bar has been raised in professional sports, and the issue is whether the NFL can keep pace in providing proper advancement opportunities to those women in front-office roles. The breakthrough came in Major League Baseball in November when the Miami Marlins hired...
by admin | Jan 8, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
“While the Washington Football Team’s NFC East championship and team owner Dan Snyder’s decision to rename the franchise (though only after succumbing to political and investor pressure) are major victories in the fight for dismantling harmful stereotypes, the...
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