by admin | Aug 16, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Reflecting on women’s sport at the Paris Olympics leaves me feeling torn. Parity was proudly announced in numbers of male and female athletes and it was an important milestone. Though it’s hardly reassuring it took 124 years since women debuted, also in Paris. There...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The 6-foot-1, former Division I college center-turned-entrepreneur just dropped a new collection featuring the U.S. women’s basketball team, who are currently chasing their eighth straight gold medal in Paris. Before that, she was in Phoenix for WNBA All-Star...
by admin | Aug 12, 2024 | Representation, SEW
If U.S. women were a nation unto themselves, their results at the 2024 Paris Olympics would make them one of the most dominant athletic countries on earth. The exhilarating U.S. soccer victory over Brazil Saturday evening added an exclamation point to what already...
by admin | Aug 12, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The 2024 Paris Olympics belonged to women. These were the first Games in history to achieve gender parity in terms of having an equal number of women and men compete. Women shone on the world stage, beating many records along the way. Read More
by admin | Aug 2, 2024 | Representation, SEW
From ultrarunning to shooting sports, in some competitions women have the edge. It’s been over 40 years, but Penny Lee Dean vividly remembers the cold. Training was brutal, as Dean prepared for what would be a record-setting swim – regardless of sex – across the...
by admin | Aug 1, 2024 | Representation, SEW
The Olympic Games are more than just a global celebration of athletic prowess—they’ve long been a powerful platform for championing equality in sports. Women first competed in the Olympic Games in 1900, coincidentally held in Paris. Since then, the journey toward...
by admin | Mar 14, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
March is Women’s History Month. Women have held an integral part in sports for decades. For every Michael Jordan shot over Craig Ehlo, there’s Mary Lou Retton sticking the landing at the 1984 Olympics. For every Michael Phelps, there’s a Katie...
by admin | Nov 15, 2023 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Ellen Hyslop cofounded in 2017 The Gist, a sports media company geared toward female fans. Three years later, Haley Rosen founded Just Women’s Sports, making Instagram content about, well, just women’s sports. The two have grown their women-led, women-run,...
by admin | Jun 22, 2023 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Hundreds of players in the women’s game went unpaid during the World Cup qualifying rounds, a leading players’ union has said. Survey finds 29% of players weren’t paid Poor pitches for World Cup qualifying FIFPro said FIFA must improve conditions...
by admin | Jun 8, 2023 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The details confirmed Wednesday by FIFA fulfils a promise made in March to financially reward the 732 players taking part in the July 20 – Aug. 20 tournament hosted by Australia and New Zealand. It means more than half of FIFA’s total prize money fund of...
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