Women’s basketball needs to work to earn an audience
Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post reports: If your TV clicker skipped right past a WNBA game, one reason may have been that you mistook it for rugby — unless … Continue reading
Why are female footballers still struggling for funding?
Women’s football teams in the West Midlands have hit out at the lack of funding they receive compared to their male counterparts, despite sometimes bringing in better results. West Bromwich … Continue reading
Hesse keeping the flame alive for women’s sports
Chris Bassnett of News-Leader.com reports: Coaching athletes always has been one of Holly Hesse’s strengths. Honored this spring for her 25th year of coaching softball at Missouri State, Hesse is … Continue reading
Settlement Calls for More Attention to Women’s Sports at Quinnipiac
Kathleen Ramunni of the Hamden Patch reports: Quinnipiac University will spend more money, allocate more scholarships and improve the infrastructure used by the school’s women’s sports teams under a settlement reached … Continue reading
Women’s college basketball could see big changes
Greg Auman of the Tampa Bay Times reports: Two years before the Women’s Final Four brings college basketball to Tampa, the sport’s leaders are taking a step back and asking … Continue reading
Inaugural women’s sports workshop
THE Fiji Women in Sport Commission held its first leadership and administration workshop for the Western Division at the Tanoa Hotel in Nadi yesterday. The one-day workshop attracted more than … Continue reading
40-love: The day women tennis players smashed sexism
Owen Gibson of TheHindu.com reports: Equal opportunity laws in the U.S. were still two years away when Billie Jean King barricaded 63 of her colleagues in a room at the … Continue reading
More female reporters should be given opportunities, Association for Women in Sports Media founders say
Cassandra Negley of Azcentral Sports reports: The “living, breathing Mt. Rushmore” of women in sports media celebrated 25 years of growth Friday at the Association for Women in Sports Media … Continue reading
Women In Sports More Likely To Become High-Level Executives, Study Finds
Are girls who play team sports more likely to end up in C-suite positions? Apparently so. This week, accounting firm Ernst & Young released the results of a survey taken … Continue reading
Women archers want national camp shifted out of Pune
Kolkata: With the confidence of women archers “shattered” by the recent incident of alleged sexual misconduct and a suicide in the Army Sports Institute in Pune, the Archery Association of … Continue reading
‘Wonderful to watch’ changes in women’s sports since Title IX, says MSU great of the 1970s
Chris Bassnett of News-Leader.com reports: “Joanie French remembers the time when perks were few and far between for female athletes at the college level. On the short list of greatest … Continue reading
Wambach is soccer’s all-time leading scorer
Tom Canavan of the Associated Press reports: “A drenched and elated Abby Wambach stood at midfield with her U.S. teammates after a win over South Korea, watching the goal onslaught … Continue reading
Hard work paying off as Dublin camogie stars get back to the future
Daragh Ó’Conchúir of TheScore.ie reports: IT’S DIFFICULT TO grasp just how dominant Dublin used to be in the camogie world. They top the roll of honour for the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior … Continue reading
Camogie bids to build on sponsor boost with closer links to hurling
The US company has signed a unique five-year deal with the associations who are also in the process, along with Ladies Football, of establishing closer ties. Increasing the profile of … Continue reading
A Push to Invigorate Women’s Basketball
Jére Longman of the New York Times reports: When Connecticut won its eighth national women’s basketball championship in April, the celebration felt oddly vacant. The brilliant play of the Huskies against Louisville … Continue reading
Irish women make their sales pitch
The Business of Women’s Sport seminar thrashed out a number of ideas for growing their games, such as Ireland’s women’s rugby team playing their Six Nations games directly after the … Continue reading
Monitoring the Media’s Coverage of Men’s and Women’s Sports
“A new blog monitors main strem media’s coverage of women’s vs. men’s sports, and it’s miiiighty grim. So far, Scoreboard for Equality monitors The New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. As you can see … Continue reading
Why are women’s sports less popular than men’s?
The Buenos Aires Herald reports: The real Olympic heroes are, from my point of view, the adult males. The Olympic Games are reserved for men. Women’s role must be played … Continue reading
Women’s sports: Study shows Title IX has lasting effect
As a young assistant, Jane Albright sat alongside legendary coach Pat Summit at Tennessee. Later, Albright made history by collecting the most wins among women’s basketball coaches at Northern Illinois … Continue reading
Soccer offers opportunity for revolution in women’s sports
JOHN DOYLE of The Globe and Mail reports: Well, that was intense. Bitter, bittersweet, a brutal humiliation, maybe, but that was an event of importance. An event to savour, as in thousands … Continue reading
A Chance to be Voice for the Voiceless’
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls it “transformative change.” And those devoting the next four weeks of their lives in hopes of that change have already begun the journey. … Continue reading
Heather Rabbatts: ‘Many women would love a role in sport, but our culture stops them’
The businesswoman Heather Rabbatts has so many jobs that, when one of her people instructs me to present myself at something called Smuggler, off Oxford Street, I have to double-check … Continue reading
Billie Jean King: Tennis star least of her important roles
Billie Jean King was an athlete first. Quickly, she became a champion, many times over. She had a remarkable tennis career. But that was not enough, not nearly enough, for … Continue reading
Gag Orders on Sexuality
Allie Grasgreen of Inside Higher Ed reports: When Brittney Griner, Baylor University’s star basketball player and one of the most celebrated athletes in the history of the sport, came out … Continue reading
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