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Study links sport participation and opportunity for girls
by One Sport Voice
posted August 2, 2010 at 4:46pm

A study by Betsey Stevenson, the author of the research and an assistant professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, reveals data that indicates playing sports leads to greater educational and employment...more

Globe profiles Stevenson's study on Title IX's beneficial effect
by Title IX Blog
posted July 30, 2010 at 9:47pm

We blogged about this last December, but today's Boston Globe has a profile of Professor Betsey Stevenson's research on causal effects of athletic participation on girls' educational and professional attainment.An excerpt: [N]ow, for the first time, ne...more

New study focuses on ethics, sports coverage
by Sports, Media & Society
posted July 21, 2010 at 1:45pm

A new survey of more than 100 sports media professionals, conducted by Marc Rosenweig at Montclair State University, has found that sports communication professionals have a variety of ethical concerns about the industry and news gathering practices. For...more

Did Isaac Newton run?
by I Run - Therefore I Blog
posted July 8, 2010 at 3:08pm

- I doubt he took his time to exercise... But, Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that form the basis for classical mechanics. They describe the relationship between the forces acting on a body and its motion due to those forces. I like nu...more

Sustainable physical activity & golfing mothers
by One Sport Voice
posted July 6, 2010 at 8:53pm

I’ll be gone for a few days to London for a think tank workshop on examining a systems models of sustainable physical activity. I will have more to report upon returning. The most interesting part is the company that is sponsoring the think tank. I’m ...more

Coaches' Title IX Literacy Called Into Question
by Title IX Blog
posted July 2, 2010 at 3:51pm

Coaches are sorely lacking foundational knowledge about Title IX, according to new, unpublished research profiled in this article in Athletic Business. The study's authors, Ellen Staurowsky of Ithaca College and Erianne Weight of Bowling Green, found tha...more

"What exercise science doesn't know about women"
by They're Playing Basketball
posted July 2, 2010 at 1:25am

Great piece in the New York Times that outlines a study of endurance in female and male cyclists. After consuming protein, the performance of males in a long race improved, while with females it was the opposite: their performance rose after taking in car...more

Sports blogging: Don't look for big payoff
by Sports, Media & Society
posted June 29, 2010 at 6:24pm

Ad Age yesterday published an article looking at the ways free labor is supplying major blog-driven sites such as BleacherReport.com. Bleacher Report, which reportedly will turn a profit this year, uses content provided for free in deals with major media ...more

Title IX: 38 Years Later
by Womenstake
posted June 23, 2010 at 4:54pm

by Kavitha Sivashanker, Fellow, National Women's Law Center Today marks the 38th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX is a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in all federally funded educational programs. It has op...more

The Chicago Tribune, sexist sporting imagery and the case for increased gender diversity in sports newsrooms
by Sports, Media & Society
posted June 10, 2010 at 1:55pm

The old “you play like a girl” insult made a comeback today, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune. As part of its regular poster series, the newspaper depicted the Chicago Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup Finals opponent Chris Pronger as wearing a figure skating ...more

Blogs, Balls, Babes and Morality
by One Sport Voice
posted June 8, 2010 at 7:45pm

My Blogs With Balls Experience: A Summary If you follow this blog you might of known I went to Chicago last weekend to attend the Blog With Balls 3.0 (BWB) Conference, and was invited to be part of the “You’ve Gotta Fight For Your Right…to Blog?:...more

The perspective of Arabic Muslim women toward sport participation
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted June 5, 2010 at 4:01pm

Maesam-T-AbdulRazak, Universiti Putra MalaysiaMohd Sofian, Omar-Fauzee, Universiti Putra MalaysiaRozita Abd-Latif, Universiti Teknologi MARAAbstract: The purpose of this study is to examine perspective of Arabic Muslim women toward the involvement in spor...more

New report on gender in televised sports
by One Sport Voice
posted June 2, 2010 at 7:00pm

Two colleagues, Mike Messner (USC) and Cheryl Cooky (Purdue), just finished the latest installment of a longitudinal study GENDER IN TELEVISED SPORTS: NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS SHOWS, 1989-2009. The report can downloaded for free here. The results are depress...more

Fault Lines: Shaking Up Change
by One Sport Voice
posted May 29, 2010 at 1:59pm

Currently I’m staying with a friend/colleague and her family in Palmerston North, New Zealand. I’ve been learning about the history of NZ, the local culture, the indigenous Maori people, trying local NZ fruit and wine, and seeing a bit of the countr...more

New Book On Shelves: "Muslim Women and Sport"
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 26, 2010 at 4:56pm

Edited by Tansin Benn, Gertrud Pfister, Haifaa Jawad; By Richard Bailey Binding/Format: HardbackISBN: 978-0-415-49076-4Publish Date: July 9th 2010Imprint: RoutledgePages: 304 pages Description: Examining the global experiences, challenges and achieveme...more

UN special advisor: Access to sports is a human right (and, BTW, key leadership training)
by Fair Game News
posted May 25, 2010 at 8:28pm

FGN bloggers interview Rachel Mayanja of the U.N. By Lindsay Rico and Sarah Odell It may seem perfectly ordinary — routine, even — to spot girls or women playing soccer, basketball, baseball, softball — or any number of sports. Four women in t...more

“Not Everything is Found on the Y-Chromosome”
by One Sport Voice
posted May 24, 2010 at 9:59pm

The 5th IWG World Conference on Women in Sport in Sydney has now drawn to a close. The 6th world Conference will be held in Helsinki, Finland in 2014. It was edifying and energizing to meet so many great women, and men, who care deeply about girls and wom...more

Michael Kirby on Stereotypes and Sports
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 24, 2010 at 12:23pm

The former High Court judge Michael Kirby feels most comfortable in a suit and tie when he's out and about. He was therefore not too happy with the way he was treated at the hip TED (Technology, Education and Design) conference in Redfern. Speaking at the...more

Preps sports reporters beat differ in values
by Sports, Media & Society
posted May 23, 2010 at 9:38pm

A recently published survey by the Curley Center has found that sports reporters differ on the way they see the role of sports coverage and on their views of ethical norms on the job -- based on beat. Although reporters who cover high school sports are mo...more

Reporting from Sydney: World Conference on Women & Sport!
by Fair Game News
posted May 21, 2010 at 1:01pm

By Sarah Odell and Lindsay Rico Have you ever considered access to athletics a human right? Do you wonder why it it matters for women to play sports? And, what the heck is Netball? These are a few of the questions being put forth at the Fifth World Co...more

Notes from the 5th World Congress on Women in Sport
by One Sport Voice
posted May 21, 2010 at 12:45pm

The first full day of the 5th IWG World Conference on Women in Sport just concluded. Last night was the opening keynote in which Cathy Freeman was in attendance (see photo). A video of Freeman’s 400m race at the 2000 Sydney Olympics was shown. Freeman w...more

Random sport facts I’ve learned so far about Australia
by One Sport Voice
posted May 18, 2010 at 8:20pm

Well I made it despite a very long flight. I’ve been wandering around Sydney a few days and yesterday took a day trip out to the Blue Mountains. I was once again was reminded how important this blog is in voicing a different opinion about sports–women...more

Muslim women and physical education in initial teacher training
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 17, 2010 at 3:39pm

Abstract: Although under-researched, there is some evidence to suggest that Muslim females can experience difficulties with traditional approaches to physical education. Based infigurational theory, this field study investigation enabled the author/resear...more

Testing the not-so-separate waters in Canada
by After Atalanta
posted May 17, 2010 at 12:32pm

Laura Pappano and Eileen McDonagh argued in their book, Playing with the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports, that the continued separation of the genders (for the purpose of this post we'll go with the rather simplistic construction of gender as a ...more

Mothers’influence on active lives
by One Sport Voice
posted May 10, 2010 at 12:38pm

We need to see more of this! In light of Mother’s Day 2010 I have a few thoughts about mothers’ influence on the active lives of their daughters. First of all, I have the BEST mother in the world and I would not be the woman I am today without her....more

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