by admin | Jun 13, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
WNBA players didn’t even have a contract for the first two years of the league’s existence, and it would be six years before they got free agency. Not until 2005, after the U.S. women had already won two World Cups and two Olympic gold medals, was U.S. Soccer...
by admin | Jun 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Orlando Pride have placed head coach Amanda Cromwell and first assistant coach Sam Greene on temporary administrative leave amid an investigation into reported retaliation, the team announced Tuesday morning. The step has been taken “pending the conclusion of an...
by admin | Jun 10, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Olympic bronze medalist and former Canadian international Carmelina Moscato is the new coach of Tigres Femenil. The Liga MX Femenil side made the announcement on Thursday, making the 38-year-old the first foreign and female coach for the most successful club in...
by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Kwan, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King and the late Pat Summitt are among the nine individual women who will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame this summer, along with Michael Phelps and hurdling great Roger Kingdom. Others...
by admin | Jun 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
“LET’S GO RODMAN.” It’s late March, and Trinity Rodman’s mother, Michelle Rodman, stands in a suite at the Washington Spirit’s Audi field in D.C., sporting a white hoodie with an image of her daughter playing soccer and the name...
by admin | Jun 3, 2022 | Pay Equity, SEW
In February, the women of the US Women’s National Team finally got some good news in their fight for equal pay: the US Soccer Federation – their employer, whom they’d very publicly sued for gender discrimination in March 2019 – had finally...
by admin | Jun 1, 2022 | Representation, SEW
FIFA has appointed a team of 54 all-female officials to this year’s Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica, the first time it has done so for one of its tournaments. Thirteen women referees, 27 women assistant referees and 14 video match officials will...
by admin | May 30, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
When U.S. soccer star Alex Morgan played in the 2015 Women’s World Cup, merchandise for the victorious U.S. team was in such short supply that her family couldn’t find any. So her father printed a flag and his daughter’s name on a few dozen T-shirts for family and...
by admin | May 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Imagine taking your mark at the start of an Olympic 100 meters final, just allowing yourself a half-second to glance down the line at your competitors … and you see Usain Bolt grinning at you. This was, for much of their professional history, the proposition facing...
by admin | May 26, 2022 | Representation, SEW
It has been an incredible year in women’s football as Barcelonacontinued to set new standards in the game with 30 wins from 30 Primera Division matches in Spain, but lost out in the UEFA Women’s Champions League final to French side Olympique Lyonnais, who...
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