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Why I find hope in the story of Paige Sultzbach and the forfeited baseball championship
by Caitlin Constantine
posted May 14, 2012 at 3:36pm

In 1972, an 11-year-old girl named Maria wanted to play Little League baseball in New Jersey.  She tried out for the team and was so good they made her pitcher.  However, the organization's rules forbade girls from playing, and so she was ...more

Private School Forfeits Championship to Avoid Playing Against a Girl
by Title IX Blog
posted May 13, 2012 at 8:18pm

This week in Arizona, a fundamentalist Catholic high school called "Our Lady of Sorrows" (indeed!) forfeited the high school championship game rather than face Mesa Preparatory Academy and its female second-baseman, Paige Sultzbach.  According to its...more

Can golf courses be sexist?
by The Rabbit Hole
posted May 8, 2012 at 12:44am

Photo from Cylex Signs.Dr. Heather Hundley seems to think so. Well not the golf courses themselves, but the people who create them.  I came across Dr. Hundley's article, Keeping the Score: The hegemonic everyday practices in golf, a little while ago ...more

Sexual Harassment Roundup
by Title IX Blog
posted May 7, 2012 at 5:11pm

Here are summaries of some recent Title IX sexual harassment cases making their way through the courts: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision dismissing a case against a school district deriving from a female teacher's sexual harassment an...more

Gender Differences in Coaching
by One Sport Voice
posted May 7, 2012 at 12:25am

Good coaching is good coaching, regardless of athlete gender. Male and female athletes are much more similar than they are different. There is just as much variability within females and within males, than between males and females. Despite the popular ...more

Brunei to Send Its First Female Athlete to the Olympics
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 3, 2012 at 7:02pm

By Marc MCDONALD HONG KONG — The International Olympic Committee banned South Africa from the Olympics for nearly 30 years, until 1992, because of the repugnant official policy of apartheid that kept black athletes from competing. Nevertheless, the ...more

"Saudi Arabia turns deaf ear to Olympic women" by Eman Al Nafjan
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted April 30, 2012 at 11:57am

Last Friday Sheikh Al Fowzan, ironically a member of the Saudi human rights commission, stated that the thought that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) might be implemented in Saudi Arabia make...more

The Heteronormativity of the Nike's Women's Marathon
by The Rabbit Hole
posted April 27, 2012 at 7:10pm

I was driving to work one morning when I heard on the radio an ad for the Nike Women's Marathon.  Not unusual since Nike and running go hand-in-hand.  What caught my attention about this particular ad was when the female voiceover said something...more

Women and weights: Don’t hate on me because I’m strong
by Fair Game News
posted April 12, 2012 at 5:21pm

  By Mariah Philips After an hour-long 6 a.m. lift, I can feel my hands shaking, residual adrenaline pumping through my veins. Sweat trickles down the side of my temple. My muscles are limp from exhaustion.  But the most prominent thing I...more

Do you see sexism in your sport?
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted April 12, 2012 at 4:59pm

Female media managers locked out of press conferences,questions on your sexual preferences and strings of comments on your appearance – just some of theissues raised by an interesting BBC documentary “Sexism in Football” this week. Narr...more

Is the Death of the Male Only Golf Club Around the Corner?
by Women in Sport International
posted April 10, 2012 at 10:11am

Tweet I am recycling this post due to the Masters taking place this weekend. When will Augusta National change its ways? Check out this article in the Globe and Mail: "Obama takes swing at all-male Augusta National" http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...more

No Saudi female Olympians - now what will the IOC do?
by After Atalanta
posted April 7, 2012 at 11:07am

It seems that after some consideration (or not) Saudi Arabian officials, despite some positive encouragement from the IOC, have decided not to send women--or even a woman--to the Olympic Games this summer in London. The king of gender equality himself--J...more

Three Middle Eastern Countries to Exclude Women From Olympics
by Wombat Sports
posted April 6, 2012 at 8:33pm

Prince Nawaf bin Faisal - Courtesy Sport-ENews.com As the Olympics vastly approach with Judo, Tae Kwon Do, wrestling, and newly introduced women’s boxing on the schedule, don’t expect to see any female competitors from Saudi Arabia, Brunei,...more

Augusta National: When “Tradition” = Justified Discrimination
by One Sport Voice
posted April 6, 2012 at 12:55pm

I’ve been following the story of IBM CEO Virginia Rometty and the Augusta National green jacket/membership controversy. In short, IBM is a long time sponsor of The Masters golf tournament, held at Augusta National Golf Club which bans women from me...more

Push coming to shove at Augusta National?
by After Atalanta
posted April 1, 2012 at 4:27pm

Shoving does not happen at Augusta National, of course. But the management does find itself in a tight spot these days. IBM--a sponsor of the Masters, and one of the few that returned after television sponsorship of the prestigious major was halted amid t...more

Gender and coaching women’s basketball, Part II
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted April 1, 2012 at 9:02am

  I had no sooner pushed the button on yesterday’s post on the issue of gender and coaching women’s basketball than ESPN The Magazine, as part of the Worldwide Leader’s flood the zone Title IX coverage, published “The Glass W...more

Gender and coaching women’s basketball
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted March 30, 2012 at 3:36pm

The moves of Wisconsin-Green Bay coach Matt Bollant to Illinois and Bowling Green’s Curt Miller to Indiana this week raised a different set of eyebrows than they might have a decade or so ago. In leaving established, NCAA-successful women’s m...more

As women dunk more often, some having trouble adapting to change
by They're Playing Basketball
posted March 29, 2012 at 12:23pm

Great piece by Ramona Shelburne (the best writer at ESPN) on Brittney Griner and other women dunking. It seems that the Baylor center's latest dunks have been met with some uneasiness from fans. Shelburne talked to a handful of coaches and players for the...more

Golfing Undercover: What men really think of women on the course
by The Rabbit Hole
posted March 18, 2012 at 1:35pm

Photo from Golf DigestIn this month's issue of Golf Digest, "Woman Undercover" details an interesting social experiment conducted with professional LPGA player, Kim Hall, and Golf Digest writer, Peter Finch.  The two of them golfed at five different ...more

LSU football trying out a female kicker
by After Atalanta
posted March 13, 2012 at 11:17am

Several men in my life* have sent me word of a former female soccer player at LSU who is trying out to be a kicker on the football team.Obviously this is not soooo out of the ordinary. Many people know of the story of Katie Hnida, who actually entered col...more

Sexual Harassment Roundup
by Title IX Blog
posted March 12, 2012 at 12:30am

Here are summaries of three recent decisions in Title IX sexual harassment cases from around the country. As reported here, a federal judge will let the mother of a bullied middle school student continue to pursue her lawsuit against the Cypress-Fairbanks...more

Culture vultures and violent male athletes
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted March 11, 2012 at 12:42pm

Sexual assault charges against two members of Boston University’s wildly successful ice hockey team have prompted the usual media hand-wringing on the meaning of it all in a societal context. So naturally, we must have a quote like this one in The ...more

Settlement Ends Harassment Investigation Against Minnesota School District
by Title IX Blog
posted March 8, 2012 at 5:55pm

This week, the Departments of Education and Justice announced that the Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minnesota will agree to a settlement resolving the Departments' joint investigation of claims that the district's failure to investigate claims of gen...more

A little playground help: Why can’t girls and boys play together?
by Fair Game News
posted March 4, 2012 at 5:42pm

By Katie Culver Have you been to recess lately? It just so happens that I have. Recently, I volunteered for recess duty at my son’s school. (He’s in first grade.) There is plenty to say about recess – including that at many schools th...more

The Politics of FIFA and the Hijab
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted March 2, 2012 at 1:28pm

By Curtis R. RyanFIFA, the international federation for world soccer, is poised to make a decision in a few days that will impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of young Muslim women -- whether or not to overturn the current ban on the hijab, or heads...more

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