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National Girls and Women in Sports Day: Celebrate the Day! - NFHS

National Girls and Women in Sports Day has been a vehicle to commemorate all female athletes, their achievements, the positive impacts of ...

The Disruptive Power of Activism By and For Women Athletes

Not only can women athletes' activism today continue the fight against the systemic inequities these athletes face, but also it has also shown ...

Female Student Athletes Face Down Monumental Challenges in the ...

Female college athletes share similar struggles. Coaches often prioritize players' success over their well-being, urging them to play ...

Separate but Equal? Women-Identifying Athlete Experiences ...

This special issue aims to expose and resolve the ways intercollegiate athletic programs reproduce and resist intersectional systems of gender ...

Student-Athlete Activism - NCAA.org

Nearly 90% of student-athletes surveyed indicated that they had conversations focused on race or racial justice with family or friends within ...

Female athletes and the fight for fairness

As its fight for equal pay stretched on, the U.S. women's soccer team became the face of an issue that went far beyond sports – especially when U.S. Soccer ...

Moments paving the way for gender equality in sport - Olympics

From Fanny Blankers-Koen to Megan Rapinoe and Simone Biles, women have been pushing the boundaries of sport and changing perceptions for decades.

What NIL Collectives Mean for Women's Sports | VIS

Collectives organize new NIL opportunities for collegiate athletes, but the opportunities they provide for women and men athletes are not ...

Title IX at 50: Its Impact on Women's College Sports

Despite these initial challenges, Title IX has since become synonymous with the advancement of women's rights in education and sports. It has paved the way for ...

8 Times Women in Sports Fought for Equality - The New York Times

All 28 players on the U.S. women's soccer team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit on Friday. They are the latest athletes to insist on ...

Gender inequality in sport: The challenges facing female athletes

The media play a key role in perpetuating these inequalities, often giving insufficient coverage to women's sporting events compared to their ...

For female athletes of color, scrutiny around gender rules ... - AP News

Female athletes of color have historically faced disproportionate ... focuses on human rights issues for athletes. She has worked with ...

Facts and figures: Women in sport - UN Women

When women athletes do succeed, they regularly face a toxic backlash of abuse online and even in mainstream media. This is on top of the harassment and abuse ...

Female athletes: Stereotypes and public opinion and how it affects ...

For decades, female athletes have been fighting an uphill battle in the world of sports. Despite improvements made over time, stereotyping and ...

Title IX – AAUW : Empowering Women Since 1881

Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in education. It covers women and men, girls and boys, and staff and students in any educational institution or program ...

The Fight for Equal Pay in Women's Sports

The USWNT has long been associated with leading the way in the fight for gender equity in soccer. Most recently, in advance of the 2019 FIFA ...

Examination of Gender Equity and Female Participation in Sport

However, it appears that women are still faced with gender equity issues in sports governance, athletic media representation, and perception in ...

Women and girls' access to sport still lagging far behind - UNESCO

21% of women athletes (and 11% of men) reported experiencing at least one form of sexual abuse as a child in sport. One of the policy priorities ...

Taking Women College Athletes Seriously in the Political Arena

We found evidence of three significant trends: 1) athletes are aware of extant inequities between women and men in college sports, 2) athletes ...

How Title IX Transformed Women's Sports | HISTORY

The groundbreaking gender equity law made a lasting impact by increasing the participation of girls and women in athletics.