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The creepiness that is the Masters
by After Atalanta
posted April 11, 2011 at 12:43pm

Even I'm impressed by the luscious greens and landscaping at Augusta National. But it's almost too lush--and I don't even have HD. What is it hiding? What are they prettying up? Well it's all hiding a heck of a lot of chemicals, I would bet. And then ther...more

Top five reasons why the Masters Tournament is out of touch
by Women in Sport International
posted April 11, 2011 at 12:39am

In order to express my feelings about female reporter Tara Sullivan being excluded from conducting player interviews at the 2011 Masters Tournament at Augusta National, I decided to make a top five list of my "favourite" things about Augusta National. S...more

Good job, Women's Health Magazine
by After Atalanta
posted April 10, 2011 at 7:59pm

Reporter and blogger Jayda Evans posted about a commercial Women's Health Magazine has produced in response to those top ten female athletes lists which feature horses. The commercial addresses a list from 2009 which I wrote about here. But note that it h...more

Touching the cultural third rail of sports and gender
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted April 9, 2011 at 2:38pm

Tweet My “Outside the Lines” appearance Sunday prompted the understandable and passionate response from gay and transgender sports advocate Pat Griffin that I thought it would, although that was never my purpose in saying what I did. I responded on ...more

Female Athletes Fly
by Stephanie Perleberg: Believe and Run On!
posted April 7, 2011 at 11:28pm

There was a song that played at the end of the women’s basketball championship game called \”Fly\” by Nicki Minaj and Rihanna that has stuck with me. These two powerful women, in their own industry, are singing about success, as they state “I came...more

Rachel Maddow Rings a Cowbell for Women's Ski Jumpers
by anngaff
posted April 7, 2011 at 3:51pm

Rachel Maddow dedicated several minutes to last night's show to talk about the long overdue addition of women's ski jumping to the Olympics. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy ...more

New group researching legal equality issues for female athletes launched at Queen's University Faculty of Law
by Women in Sport International
posted April 7, 2011 at 2:55pm

A new research group, The Women in Sport Legal Research Group, is proud to announce that it will conducting important legal  research on gender equality in sport. The group, which has been working in various degrees since 2009, is proud to welco...more

"Is 30 the new 50?": Is 30% Female Representation Enough?
by Women in Sport International
posted April 5, 2011 at 2:39pm

MacLean's Magazine, in it's 2011 Toronto Blue Jays Special Edition, included an article entitled "Is 30 the New 50?" (not yet available online). The article questions whether quotas on female representation on Boards of Directors should set at 30%, as has...more

All's fair in feminism and basketball
by After Atalanta
posted April 5, 2011 at 2:05pm

(I'm not really sure exactly how that title is going to fit with the rest of the post, but I liked the way it sounded, so I am going with it.) So, in case you didn't know, men's intercollegiate basketball has its own tournament. It culminated last night i...more

A Middle East Female Sports Revolution?
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted April 2, 2011 at 5:40pm

Al-Jazeera has called the current uprisings in the Middle East a feminist revolution. The news channel also argues that women’s participation has made the protests more peaceful than they might have been otherwise. Could the happenings in the Middle Eas...more

Not. Funny.
by Stephanie Perleberg: Believe and Run On!
posted March 31, 2011 at 5:47pm

Recently I have been hearing all these “jokes” that are really not funny. I didn’t, even for a second, wonder if I was losing my sense of humor because, as it states in my bio, I am a “fun haver”, which means that I do, and will forever, love la...more

Investing in Women -- Why Women Leaders Lead to Success
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted March 30, 2011 at 6:42pm

Author: NACWAA NACWAA believes strongly that advancing women into leadership positions ultimately leads to a more balanced, equitable and successful society. Last week's Forbes.com article by Kathy Caprino, Mandating Women At The Leadership Table: W...more

Perceptions of leadership in sport
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted March 29, 2011 at 4:46pm

Blog written by Kinesiology graduate student and doctoral candidate Vicki Schull The connection between sport leadership and masculinity is particularly strong given the history of sport, which is steeped in a culture of male dominance and control, and ...more

So predictable you can set your watch to it
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted March 27, 2011 at 2:54pm

Tweet Women’s hoops fans who’d like to tear into Chicago Sun-Times columnist Rick Morrissey for this year’s derivative “Fans don’t care about women’s basketball” diatribe need to keep a couple things in mind that I’ll explain after this e...more

The WIN Principle:What's Important Now for Women in Sport
by Women in Sport International
posted March 26, 2011 at 3:59pm

My high school basketball coach taught me many things, but probably the most important lesson was the WIN Principle. She always taught us that in sport and in life we should focus on What's Important Now. This may seem like an easy idea to get your head a...more

My comments on the LFL
by One Sport Voice
posted March 25, 2011 at 12:06pm

Women and Sports Expert: Lingerie Football Downplays Sport: MyFoxTWINCITIES.com Listen above to some comments I made on the Minneapolis Lingerie Football League expansion team. I’ll write more later to refute the LFL founder Mitchell Mortaza’s statem...more

The Lingerie Football League (LFL) comes to MSP
by One Sport Voice
posted March 24, 2011 at 6:00pm

Breaking news, the Lingerie Football League (LFL) has just announced that Minneapolis is being awarded a franchise. I’ve written previously about my disdain for the LFL and why I think the league is problematic (click here and here). What troubles me i...more

WSJ reports on brain similarities between adolescents of different sex
by Title IX Blog
posted March 23, 2011 at 8:53pm

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal reported findings of government research that casts doubt on assumptions that male and female brains are significantly different during adolescence. As the article put it: A common stereotype is that boys develop more slo...more

Be a living example
by RunLikeAGirl
posted March 23, 2011 at 1:55pm

mothers not only can, but should claim their workout time...more

Lesbians and Lingerie Football: No Muffin Tops Need Apply
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted March 21, 2011 at 3:13pm

I have not written about the Lingerie Football League because, well, I find it offensive. I am sure not many regular readers will be surprised by this. The league focuses on everything I find demeaning and insulting about media portrayals of women athlet...more

Laura Robinson and Nikki Dryden join Women in Sport International
by Women in Sport International
posted March 20, 2011 at 5:06pm

Women in Sport International is proud to announce that Laura Robinson and Nikki Dryden have joined the blog and will be soon contributing regular blog posts. Laura is an award winning journalist, author and former Canadian national team athlete. Nikki ...more

Australia: "we still see women facing barriers to participating in sport across their lifetime"
by Women in Sport International
posted March 18, 2011 at 3:00pm

According to the AAP, the federal government of Australia is taking action to give female leaders in sport more opportunities to get involved in the nation's sports organizations. The program, which was announced yesterday, has two key elements: Esta...more

Gender Roles 101: The March Madness Edition
by After Atalanta
posted March 18, 2011 at 12:49pm

I don't have time for this shit, people. It's the last day of spring break and I have classes to prep and a dissertation to write and a yoga class in 45 minutes. And yet here I sit writing about more ridiculousness around March Madness--courtesy of The Hu...more

New GLSEN Sports Project to Address LGBT Issues in K-12 Sports
by mhueter
posted March 18, 2011 at 12:20pm

LGBT and Ally Sports Stars Lend Support to Campaign to Promote Respect for All in Sports NEW YORK, March 17, 2011 – In an effort to make K-12 sports and physical education safer and more inclusive for all regardless of sexual orientation...more

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