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'Glee' cheerleading coach and pregnancy discrimination - Shame on Sue!
by Womenstake
posted October 28, 2009 at 8:08pm

by Amanda Stone, Fellow, National Women's Law Center “Q, take off those sunglasses. I want to look in your eyes when I tell you this. You’re off the Cheerios. I can’t have a pregnant girl on the squad. You’re a disgrace.” These are the words t...more

Why do some men hate women's sports?
by Athletic Women Blog
posted October 27, 2009 at 7:23pm

In a San Jose State University Spartan Daily piece, Angela Marino writes of having overheard a male student complain about women's sports. He doesn't think that women can play sports. Fine. But why complain? Surely he's not being forced to watch women's s...more

The president's sporty White House
by After Atalanta
posted October 26, 2009 at 5:46pm

President Obama got some flack last year for only doing a men's bracket during the NCAA tournament. (Ok mostly it was just me giving him a hard time.)This time he is getting grief for an all-male congressional basketball game. I heard about this but didn'...more

The cheerleading debate continues
by After Atalanta
posted October 17, 2009 at 6:52pm

I am a little bit tired of talking about cheerleading but I have acquired a critical mass of stories (i.e. three) about cheerleading so it seemed to indicate that a blog post was in order.USA Today ran a point/counterpoint editorial on the merits of cheer...more

Why Can’t DIII Football Be Co-Ed?
by Fair Game News
posted October 16, 2009 at 12:29pm

Lebanon Valley College photo By Laura Pappano The phrase “college football” evokes testosterone-charged pre-U.S. Marine-style intensity and mammoth bodies colliding at ridiculously odd angles and high speeds. That may accurately describe DI teams...more

What do online college coach biographies tell us about inclusivity?
by One Sport Voice
posted October 16, 2009 at 11:51am

See a guest column I wrote with graduate student Austin Stair Calhoun for the Women’s Sports Foundation, It Takes a Team newsletter titled: What Can Online Intercollegiate Coach Biographies Tell Us About Inclusivity and Tolerance of Diverse Sexual Ori...more

Can’t attend the Distinguished Lecture on Monday? Watch it LIVE!
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted October 15, 2009 at 5:22pm

The Tucker Center’s Fall 2009 Distinguished Lecture, Facing Off Over Facebook: The Impact of Social Media on Women Sports, will be available via live stream on Monday, Oct. 19, beginning at 7:00pm. The links to watch the lecture remotely are as follo...more

Settlement ends Title IX suit against FHSAA
by Title IX Blog
posted October 15, 2009 at 12:10pm

The controversy in Florida that resulted when the state's athletic association that proposed a cost-saving schedule reduction for every sport except football and cheer was largely resolved over the summer, when the FHSAA rescinded the proposal in response...more

Audio interviews: Women’s Sports Foundation’s red carpet event
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted October 15, 2009 at 11:13am

Check out some of the interviews from the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Annual Salute to Women in Sports red carpet event last night… (Click links below pictures to listen to the interviews). Apologize in advance for the lack of “depth” in my que...more

Where are the Photographs of Female Coaches?
by One Sport Voice
posted October 14, 2009 at 1:50pm

As part of my research and outreach I’m always trying to track down pictures of female coaches, specifically at the youth level, that don’t look “staged”. I’ve looked in most all the photo websites like IStock Photo, and when you type in “fe...more

Photos from Women’s Sports Foundation red carpet
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted October 14, 2009 at 12:42pm

Check it out (click through to Flickr to see descriptions)… Ok, so I’m not a professional photographer. But I did my best. Very cool to meet such neat people who have “moved the needle” from multiple generations of women in sport. ...more

The history of women’s sports we’d rather forget (but shouldn’t)
by Fair Game News
posted October 14, 2009 at 12:20pm

By Laura Pappano Word last week that rare film footage of Babe Ruth had been discovered by a New Hampshire man among his grandfather’s home movies provided yet another opportunity to lovingly recall the delightful history of sport, in this case, baseba...more

Fields of discontent in Ohio
by Title IX Blog
posted October 11, 2009 at 7:42pm

A parent has notified the ACLU which has sent a letter to the Chillicoth school district saying that they may be in violation of Title IX due to the discrepancies between the high school's softball and baseball fields. Which are the facilities in question...more

Womens Sports Foundation Annual Salute to Women in Sports… Here I come
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted October 11, 2009 at 7:37pm

This week, I’m going to do something I’ve been waiting to do for a long time. I’ll be attending the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Annual Salute to Women in Sports event in New York City as a member of the media and co-founder of WomenTalkSports.c...more

The IAAF must be really smart...
by After Atalanta
posted October 11, 2009 at 1:51pm

...'cause they are going to figure out what sex is in ONE YEAR!Yep, since the Castor Semenya "situation" (which they handled poorly though I haven't heard any kind of admittance of regret--unfortunately), I guess the governing body of track and field has ...more

Hello, Pot? This is the Kettle...
by After Atalanta
posted October 10, 2009 at 12:36pm

...you're black.The pot in the title is Jacques Rogge who, along with other IOC members, are engaging in "quiet diplomacy" with three countries who the IOC does not feel is doing a suitable job supporting Olympic female athletes. Part of the quiet is the ...more

NCAA career development program for women
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted October 9, 2009 at 1:29pm

University of Minnesota women's softball coach Julie Standering / Photo credit: Gophersports.com The NCAA is holding a career development program that’s targeting women, announced today. It’s going to be held on December 17 in conjunction with the ...more

Would-Be Women Astronauts Denied the Right to Serve
by Womenstake
posted October 8, 2009 at 2:27pm

by Melanie Ross Levin, Outreach Manager, National Women’s Law Center In the 1950s, as the space race was heating up, NASA trained a number of women to serve as astronauts. Sadly, that training was as far as they got. Newly released medical tests pub...more

The current climate for LBGT athletes
by After Atalanta
posted October 8, 2009 at 12:34pm

I attended a panel the other night of LGBT student-athletes and other athletic department personnel.Here's what I came away with: things are not good but people think they are getting better.And I guess they are if you look at from a certain point of view...more

College ticket prices: Why they reveal a post Title IX problem
by Fair Game News
posted October 7, 2009 at 4:32pm

By Laura Pappano Reporter Libby Sander’s short piece in yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education (click here to read it), highlighted our Wellesley Centers for Women study with a simple headline: “Even at Elite Programs, Ticket Prices for Women’...more

GLAD to be working together
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 7, 2009 at 3:56pm

The Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) is a New England-based legal rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity and expression. They were one of the driving forces behind ...more

New research addresses discrimination in ticket prices
by Title IX Blog
posted October 7, 2009 at 1:29pm

A new report by researchers at the Wellesley Centers for Women examines the gender gap in ticket prices for Division I college basketball. Significantly, the report explains that ticket prices are set by athletic departments' own judgments of the value o...more

Sports are about more than scores and highlights
by Women's Sports Blog
posted October 4, 2009 at 4:34pm

The banners for Pittsburgh area teams are made by hand, at an extremely small factory where most, if not all, of the actual people who sew are women. Recently they were interviewed about the latest Stanley Cup banner for the Penguins, and one of them re...more

Quinnipiac v-ball not a sure thing
by Title IX Blog
posted October 2, 2009 at 12:32pm

During the midst of court proceedings last spring, Quinnipiac University in Connecticut reinstated women's volleyball under pressure about their Title IX compliance and some questions about doctored rosters.But the university went ahead with its original ...more

Equal Opportunities for Transgender Student-Athletes
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 1, 2009 at 4:06pm

On October 25-26 in Indianapolis, The Women’s Sports Foundation initiative, It Takes A Team will be partnering with the Sports Project of the National Center for Lesbian Rights to host a national think tank entitled, “Equal Opportunities for Transgend...more

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