Foundation, Beantown Jumpers featured on Austin, Texas "News 8" broadcast
Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Women’s Sports Foundation, GoGirlGo! Boston’s Director Whitney Post and GoGirlGo! Boston grantees, The Beantown Jumpers, were recently featured on an Austin, Texas, News 8 broadcast, in a segment titled “Girls who play sports are likely headed for bright futures.”
In the online article and accompanying video, Foundation research regarding athletic participation statistics of high school girls is cited, making the News 8 broadcast evermore credible in its suggestion that girls who play sports have higher levels of confidence and self-esteem and lower levels of depression, a message the Foundation tirelessly works to spread.
In the video segment seen during News 8’s nightly broadcast, GoGirlGo! grantees The Beantown Jumpers are featured. The Jumpers are a competitive Double Dutch team from Boston, Quincy and Pembroke, Mass., with team members who include girls and boys, Grade 2 to Grade 5. Their mission is to share the sport of Double Dutch with others while encouraging physical activity, teamwork and fun.
”It makes me feel like I am very special,” Jumper Juliette Silva said of her involvement with the group.
The video also focuses on the disparity between high school athletic opportunities for boys and those for girls. Again citing Foundation research, News 8 Austin states that there are one-third fewer participation opportunities for girls than for boys at the high school level.
“We need to reach out to girls to provide opportunities for them,” said GoGirlGo! Boston Director Whitney Post.
Watch the video here.
More on GoGirlGo! Boston.
More on Beantown Jumpers.
Jackson honored at NY Liberty's Inspiring Women Night
Published: Tuesday, July 28, 2009
On Thursday, July 23, 2009, the Foundation’s Yolanda Jackson was honored by the New York Liberty at their Inspiring Women Night, when the Liberty took on the Sacramento Monarchs. Jackson, who serves as the Foundation’s Senior Director of Athlete Marketing, was recognized alongside 12 other women who are pioneers of local New York City non-profit organizations that empower the lives of women and young girls. Before the game, the Liberty hosted a reception and networking event in the Club Bar & Grill at Madison Square Garden that featured the evening's honorees and special guest speakers Liberty president and general manager Carol Blazejowski and WNBA president Donna Orender.
Foundation President featured in CaptainU Internet radio interview
Published: Thursday, July 09, 2009
Jessica Mendoza, Women's Sports Foundation President, was recently featured on "Role Models." In a wide-ranging interview, Mendoza talked about winning Olympic gold, her work with the Women's Sports Foundation and her recent visit to the troops in Afghanistan. "Role Models" is an Internet radio show produced by CaptainU, a college softball recruiting software company.
Listen to the full interview here!
Foundation research highlighted in New York Times
Published: Monday, June 15, 2009
Research commissioned by the Foundation is used in a poignant New York Times article emphasizing the lack of opportunity for girls in urban neighborhoods to take part in sports. On Saturday, June 13, Katie Thomas of the Times describes how the youth sports movement has been highly influential in suburban communities, while girls living in cities from Los Angeles to New York are being left behind.
Disparity in girls’ sports is revealed through a look at urban teams
Foundation’s Director of Research, Don Sabo, is quoted
By Katie Thomas
New York Times Staff Writer
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The Cougars of Middle School 61 had a basketball game in the Bronx, but a half-hour before tipoff, six girls and Coach Bryan Mariner were still inching through traffic in Brooklyn.
A cell phone rang. It belonged to forward Tiffany Fields-Binning, who passed the phone to Mr. Mariner. “You don’t want her to go?” he said. He peered up at a street sign. “We’re on Atlantic and Flatbush.” He paused. “O.K. O.K. We’ll wait here.” Mr. Mariner turned off the ignition. “Tiff-a-ny.” He said her name slowly, like a sigh. “You didn’t set this straight with your pop?” Tiffany stared out a window. Mr. Mariner turned and assessed the situation: “We’ve got five.” Five players. No substitutes.
With this team, it’s always something. In the suburbs, girls’ participation in sports is so commonplace that in many communities, the conversation has shifted from concerns over equal access to worries that some girls are playing too much. But the revolution in girls’ sports has largely bypassed the nation’s cities, where public school districts short on money often view sports as a luxury rather than an entitlement.
Coaches and organizers of youth sports in cities say that while many immigrant and lower-income parents see the benefit of sports for sons, they often lean on daughters to fill needs in their own hectic lives, like tending to siblings or cleaning the house.
Others, like Tiffany’s father, Gavin Binning, are worried for their daughter’s safety, another roadblock to playing.
“Tiffany’s my baby,” he said. “They weren’t going around the corner, they were going to the Bronx. And for me not knowing that, it drove me crazy.”
Since the passage of the federal gender-equity law known as Title IX in 1972, girls’ participation in sports has soared. In the 1971-72 school year, girls accounted for 7 percent of all participants in high school sports. By the 2006-7 school year, their share had grown to 41 percent, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.
In the suburbs, girls play sports at rates roughly equal to boys. A 2007 survey by Harris Interactive of more than 2,000 schoolchildren nationwide showed that 54 percent of boys and 50 percent of girls in the suburbs described themselves as “moderately involved” athletes.
Urban areas revealed a much greater discrepancy. Only 36 percent of city girls in the survey described themselves as moderately involved athletes, compared with 56 percent of city boys. Girls in cities from Los Angeles to New York “are the left-behinds of the youth sport movement in the United States,” said Don Sabo, a professor of health policy at D’Youville College in Buffalo, who conducted the study, which was commissioned by the Women’s Sports Foundation, a private advocacy group.
The Cougars have few of the basics that suburban public school girls have come to expect, including free transportation, uniforms and full seasons of regularly scheduled games. At M.S. 61 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, each road game is a logistical puzzle for Mr. Mariner, 46, who is dean of students and coach of the school’s girls’ and boys’ basketball teams. Even when the Cougars arrive ready to play, games are sometimes canceled because the opponents — facing the same obstacles — cannot field a team. Parents rarely show up to watch.
Foundation featured in Washington Post article
Published: Thursday, May 21, 2009
Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, Former president of the Women’s Sports Foundation Board of Trustees, has been chosen as USA Track and Field's first chief of sports performance. In an article published on Thursday, May 21, Amy Shipley of the Washington Post desribes the challenges Fitzgerald Mosley will face in fixing a troubled U.S. Olympic track and field program.
U.S. Track Program Gets a Fix
Fitzgerald Mosley Will Be First Chief of Performance
By Amy Shipley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, a 1984 Olympic gold medalist, will be charged with fixing a troubled U.S. Olympic track and field program today when she is announced as USA Track and Field's first chief of sport performance, according to two sources with knowledge of the move.
Fitzgerald Mosley, 47, who resides in Haymarket and attended Gar-Field High in Woodbridge, helped put together a blisteringly critical report of the U.S. track and field team's performance after the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing as a member of an independent panel that included famed sprinter Carl Lewis.
Among more than a dozen recommendations in the report, which blamed the U.S. team's debacle-filled Olympic performance on disorganized coaching and a lack of professionalism by athletes, was the appointment of a general manager of sports performance to take charge of an area the report deemed to be in "chaos."
Fitzgerald Mosley was considered an ideal choice for the post because, despite her close connection to track and field, she had remained apart from USATF politics and policies since she retired as an athlete in 1988, giving her a desirable distance and independence, according to one of the sources. She also was considered among the most clear-thinking, incisive and diplomatic members of the nine-person panel that authored the report, the source said.
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly in advance of the announcement.
USATF chief executive Doug Logan made the decision with input from President Stephanie Hightower and other USATF constituents, according to a source, and began informing them of the move yesterday. About a half-dozen candidates were interviewed, the source said, and Fitzgerald Mosley was considered the first choice.
"She's got nonprofit experience, she's got leadership experience, she's got athlete experience, she's got athletic managerial experience as well," one of the sources said. "She's someone everybody knows, but she's not someone who owes favors to anybody either."
The independent panel was assembled by Logan on the heels of an Olympic Games in which the U.S. team led the overall medal count but underperformed in many areas, most notably the relays. In a stunning embarrassment, both the U.S. men's and women's 4x100 relay teams dropped batons in back-to-back races near the end of the track and field competition.
As star U.S. athletes struggled, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and others from his nation dominated the headlines.
Fitzgerald Mosley's first priority will be ensuring that post-collegiate athletes have access to the best possible training opportunities, one of the sources said.
After graduating from Gar-Field in 1979, Fitzgerald Mosley attended the University of Tennessee on a track scholarship and earned a degree in industrial engineering. She won a gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games before becoming the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold in the 100-meter hurdles.
She has spent eight years as chief executive of Women in Cable Telecommunications in Chantilly and will remain in the region for the immediate future, a source said. USA Track and Field, the governing body for the sport in the United States, is based in Indianapolis.
Fitzgerald Mosley was president of the Women's Sports Foundation Board of Trustees in 1997-98, and remains a member of the board. She also has overseen the direction of the U.S. Olympic Committee's training centers, considered a valuable trait as the USATF seeks to improve its training opportunities for athletes.
In addition to appointing a director of sport performance, the 69-page report recommended an overhaul of USA Track and Field's high-performance program, improvements to its anti-doping policies and the termination of its million-dollar relay developmental program. The report deemed that program "a waste of money and a failure."
The relay program has been dissolved.
Published: Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Steve Ballard, sports reporter from the Indianapolis Star, spoke with Foundation CEO Karen Durkin and former Foundation President Lyn St. James to discuss the viability of women's professional sports leagues in trying economic times:
Women's pro leagues fight to remain viableIndianapolis Star
By Steve Ballard
steve.ballard@indystar.com
The WNBA lost one of its marquee franchises and is trimming rosters. Five LPGA tournaments have been canceled because of a lack of sponsorship. Women's Professional Soccer has scaled back expectations in its inaugural season.
But if women's professional sports leagues aren't thriving in a struggling economy, neither are they in imminent danger of going under, which is evidence of how far they have come.
"Like every company in this country, we're feeling the effects of the worst economy since the Great Depression," said Karen Durkin, CEO of the Women's Sports Foundation.
"But we're strong enough to weather the effects of the economy a lot better than we could have a decade ago. The ability of the women's professional leagues to withstand the current crisis is a sign of the evolution of women's sports."
Durkin, who just finished her first year presiding over the organization begun in 1974 by women's sports pioneer Billie Jean King, pointed to such things as Danica Patrick's IndyCar Series win last year and the equal prize money for women and men in tennis' four grand slam tournaments as signs of progress.
But what encourages her most is that women's pro sports leagues can stand on their own and not be viewed as part of a larger women's movement.
"We're no longer being positioned as a cause," she said. "That's very symbolic for the next frontier of women's sports."
As that frontier is explored, the immediate challenge is finding ways to attract new fans and sponsors at a time neither has much extra money to throw around. But with adversity comes opportunity, and women's sports advocates are quick to point out they can offer a less expensive alternative to their male counterparts.
That's the strategy employed by Indiana Fever general manager Kelly Krauskopf entering a crucial season for the future of the WNBA franchise in Indianapolis.
Pacers co-owner Herb Simon has committed to the Fever for just one more season and has said attendance and sponsorships need to improve dramatically for the team to stay afloat. The 12-year-old WNBA already lost the Houston Comets, who won the league's first four championships, and is trimming rosters from 13 players to 11 -- a net loss of nearly 40 jobs.
Krauskopf said corporate sales are up slightly and she remains confident fans will turn out if the team wins.
"People still want entertainment outlets and we're extremely affordable," she said. "I'm approaching this year as I have every year and as I hopefully will for many years to come.
"We need to show increased revenues and put a great team on the floor that will attract new fans. We need to demonstrate progress and show that this is a growing business. But that's a part of any business."
Knowing the market Lyn St. James, an activist for women in racing since retiring as a driver, said women's sports organizations need to better identify their audience so they have a clear message to take to potential sponsors.
"We don't have demographic information on who's in the stands, so we can't go to companies and expect them to respond," she said. "Nobody knows what to do with us."
While conceding she has an "optimistic view of a pessimistic picture," St. James said women's leagues should capitalize on companies having less to spend.
"We need to be able to show them the value they can get from us when they're being forced to cut back," she said. "Then when the economy does pick up, we can hit the ground running."
The LPGA Tour, the most entrenched of women's sports leagues, also has been the hardest hit. The Corning Classic, a fixture on the schedule since 1979, will be played for the final time this month and is the fifth event since the end of the 2008 season to go away. The retirement of star attraction Annika Sorenstam hasn't helped.
Commissioner Carolyn Bivens said with no corporations automatically renewing sponsorships and every existing deal subject to review, it's more important than ever to show them a return on their investment.
"If any of us could choose, we would not choose to be faced with this economic crisis," she said. "Having said that, for organizations that are agile enough and can analyze their strengths, there's actually great opportunities to come out of this better off than we went into it."
The bleak economy did not prevent Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) from beginning play last month with seven franchises. Commissioner Tonya Antonucci said the league's investors (all the teams are locally owned) considered delaying but were unanimous in deciding to play.
"Every time we addressed it, everyone was a go and believed it would cost us more to wait," she said.
"History will tell us whether we were right or not."
Other than the game on the field, WPS bears little resemblance to the failed WUSA, which burned through $100 million before folding in 2003.
The average WPS salary is $32,000 and Antonucci said the league's business plan, which includes a TV deal with Fox Soccer Channel, can be sustained with an average attendance of around 4,000. Through the first few weeks, the average is closer to 6,000.
Antonucci is looking forward to the day that gender no longer is a dividing line in pro sports and believes soccer, where women and men play exactly the same game, can help make that happen.
In the meantime, as with all businesses, new and old, large and small, she has bills to pay.
"Everyone is dealing with it," Antonucci said. "We have learned the lessons of how to contain costs and know we have to be creative in how we spend our dollars.
"We're setting our expectations modestly, but we're growing this thing to be around for a long time."
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Williams Tops Prize Money List, Credits Billie Jean King
Published: Monday, February 02, 2009
By reaching both the doubles and singles finals in the Australian Open this weekend, Serena Williams became the all-time prize money leader in women's sports. Upping her total to $22.7 million in career prize money, she surpasses both Lindsay Davenport and Annika Sorenstam.
“You look at people like Billie Jean King, then you look at things in the United States called Title IX, which gave women an opportunity to play sports. You really appreciate that,” Williams said.
“You really appreciate the people, the pioneers, the work they've done to get me in a position to have an opportunity to be called even the highest-earning female tennis player.
“I just feel so honored that I had so many wonderful pioneers doing things to open doors."
Williams headed into Saturday's final having topped the money list, and emerged with a win that put her into another elite ranking. She now joins the pioneer she credits - Billie Jean King - as well as Chris Evert, Helen Wills Moody, Steffi Graf and Margaret Court in having won 10 or more grand slam titles.
Report: Urban Girls Shortchanged in Sports
Published: Monday, November 10, 2008
Girls who live in urban areas start sports at a later age and have lower rates of participation than urban boys and suburban girls, according to a report released last Thursday by the Women’s Sports Foundation. The report “Go Out and Play: Youth Sports in America” by professor Don Sabo at D’Youville College in Buffalo, N.Y., also looked at sports participation among disabled and immigrant youth. Physical activity among urban girls lags well behind their male counterparts--find out where discrepancies lie and how you can begin to solve them.
Boston Globe on WSF Report - "Go Out & Play"
Published: Friday, October 24, 2008
The Boston Globe references the Women's Sports Foundation's recent research report Go Out & Play in its Saturday article "Our Losing War Against Flab."
The Checkup
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Washington Post examines the major findings of 'Go Out & Play' - the Women's Sports Foundation's latest study and collaboration with Harris Interactive. The study which points to increased satisfaction amongst families with active children has become a significant resource for media.
Study Finds Gender Barrier in Sports
Published: Friday, October 10, 2008
The New York Times references the Women's Sports Foundation's recently released Go Out & Play study revealing reduced physical activity rates in girls who are non-white or have an immigrant-background.
Maybe Women's Sports Don't Hurt NCAA Men
Published: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Wall Street Journal 's Matthew Futterman explores "the debate over equal rights on the athletic field," citing the Women's Sports Foundation's recent study "Who's Playing College Sports? Money, Race & Gender." The study, which finds increases in both men's and women's college sports and suggests that the "Title IX blame game" stop was pre-released on a press call attended by media including the LA Times, Associated Press and Indianapolis Star.
GoGirlGo! Boston Grant Award Winner, The Blackstone Community Center
Published: Thursday, August 14, 2008
GoGirlGo!, a nationwide initiative designed to motivate girls to be more physically active, recently awarded a grant to the Blackstone Community Center on West Brookline Street. The grant, part of a $2.6 million nationwide grant fund, will help create and sustain programs targeting local girls that will encourage them to become more physically active, to help them deal with issues of weight and body image, and to help them make better choices about their health. As part of the grant, GoGirlGo! will also provide Blackstone with education materials designed to help them create better curriculums for girls ages 8 to 18. For 8 to 12 year olds, the materials include a GoGirls! Guide to Life, featuring personal stories from female athletes who have made healthy choices, and accompanying GoGirl scrapbook; for the 13 to 18 year olds, the GoGirlGo! Ambassador Leadership Program provides them with college scholarship and team grant incentives to individuals and programs that advocate physical activity among their peers.
This grant is particularly valuable in Boston, where studies have shown that female high school students are more likely to be overweight than the national average.
GoGirlGo! Atlanta joins Georgia Tech Basketball for Golf Classic
Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
GoGirlGo!
Atlanta , founded by the Women's Sports Foundation, will partner up with the Georgia Tech Women’s Basketball team for the inaugural of the Machelle Joseph Golf Classic. The Yellow Jackets will continue to help with the ongoing initiative of helping young girls make healthier decisions. The Golf Classic proceeds will go to the GoGirlGo! Atlanta Program. This will help in the program’s mission to educate and encourage girls to play fun sports and games as a means to safeguard their health, boost their confidence, build character and teamwork.
Equal Access to Physical Education for the Disabled
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Maryland enacted the Fitness and Athletics Equity for Students with Disabilities Act, which requires schools to ensure that students with disabilities have equal access to physical education classes and athletics programs. This act is doing for the disabled what Title IX did for women, which is giving them their right for opportunities to participate in athletic programs. Terri Lakowski , public policy director of the Women’s Sports Foundation notes that “we are only at the starting point but we gained some traction today.”
Dara Torres Makes an Olympic Comeback at Age 41
Published: Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Nine-time Olympic medalist Dara Torres will become the oldest American to swim at the Olympics at the age of 41. History is in the making as the swimmer turns down half a million in endorsement deals to focus on her races. Torres broke the U.S. record in the 50 meter freestyle during a semi-final heat only to break it again in the final heat. Torres has won over 4 medals during 3 Olympic games.
CSU Illustrates a Genuine Commitment to Gender Equity in Athletics
Published: Tuesday, July 01, 2008
In 1992, the California State Fullerton women’s volleyball program was shut down causing them to file a lawsuit under federal Title IX, which requires equality between men and women sports. Since then, CSF female athletes now outnumber men athletes, three to two. Also, women athletics outspent the men programs in 2006-2007 by $1.1 million. The
California State University system has doubled in number of female athletes and scholarships are continually increasing.
Gimelstob Apologizes for Crude Remarks
Published: Sunday, June 29, 2008
The Star-Ledger reports that retired tennis pro Justin Gimelstob, is set to make a donation to the Women's Sports Foundation as a part of his apology. This follows derogatory comments he made about Anna Kournikova and other female tennis players. Gimelstob met with Billie Jean King, founder of the Women's Sports Foundation, following the unfortunate incident.
Los Angeles Sparks' Candice Parker Receives Prestigious Award
Published: Monday, June 23, 2008
Streetinsider.com reports on Parker, who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks, who recently received the 32nd Annual Honda Broderick Cup, making her the 2008 Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. The prestigious award honors athletic and academic achievements as well as team and community contributions. Prior to receiving the award, Parker became the second woman to dunk in a WNBA game.
Magnificent Seven "Gear Up" for Olympic Hall of Fame Induction
Published: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Yahoo! Sports reported that the "Magnificent Seven" reunite as they receive an honor of a lifetime. They were the team entry in this year's class for the Olympic Hall of Fame. The Magnificent Seven includes Dominique Dawes, who recently served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation.
Cardenas Work with "Can You Dig It" Draws Receptive Attention
Published: Thursday, June 12, 2008
San Antonio Express- News reports on Harlandale Volleyball Coach Sylvia Cardenas, who is featured in an exhibit at the Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center. Cardenas was honored for her work with the Can You Dig It volleyball league she started. The inexpensive volleyball league provides young disadvantaged volleyball players the opportunity to participate in a club team sport, which would normally be costly.
U.S. Goalkeeper Makes an Unwelcome Return
Published: Sunday, May 25, 2008
The New York Times reports on U.S. Goalkeeper Hope Solo, who has many obstacles ahead of her. Not only will she face the challenge of competing in the soccer tournament at the Beijing Olympics but she will also be dealing with the wrath of her teammates. This comes after Hope's harsh criticism of her coach's decision to bench her and her teammate's poor performance during the World Cup last September. Many people question whether or not Hope would be receiving this harsh treatment had she been a male athlete who made the comments.
Sports Icons Ring Closing Bell
Published: Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The NYSE welcomes Billie Jean King, Sports Museum of America Co-founders Philip Schwalb and Sameer Ahuja and Olympic Gold Medalist Carl Lewis to ring the closing bell to celebrate the grand opening of the Sports Museum of America - home to the Foundation's Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center.
Women's Sports Center "Stands Out" Among Salutes
Published: Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The New York Daily News' Mark Lelinwalla reports on the Billie Jean King International Women’s Sports Center, the Women's Sports Foundation's wing in the Sports Museum of America and the first museum exhibit and hall of fame dedicated exclusively to women's sports. Lelinwalla describes the Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center as the standout exhibit of the Sports Museum of America.
Danica Patrick Makes History for Women in Sports
Published: Saturday, April 26, 2008
Dr. Marj Snyder lends insight to the L.A. Times article on the impact race car driver, Danica Patrick and golfer Lorena Ochoa have on women in sports. Bylined by Greg Johnson.
2008 Billies Award a "Big Hit"
Published: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Access Hollywood, the New York Post, the New York Daily News and every major LA print outlet including the LA Times and the LA Daily News report on this year's Billie Awards - the Foundation's salute to excellent media coverage of women's sports. Coverage featured comments by Billie Jean King, Elton John and discussion of distinguished honorees and guests.
Women's Sports Foundation Announces New CEO
Published: Wednesday, April 09, 2008
USA Today covers the appointment of new CEO Karen Durkin, joining the Foundation from the National Hockey League (NHL), where she served as executive vice president of communications and brand strategy. Durkin, the Foundation's fourth CEO, succeeds Dr. Donna Lopiano, who resigned from the Foundation last August after a fifteen year tenure. The Foundation's founding Executive Director, Eva Auchincloss, served from 1974 until 1986 when Deborah Slaner Larkin assumed the role, serving until 1991.
Luring Sports Fans of All Seasons to Lower Manhattan
Published: Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The New York Times' Richard Sandomir reports on the May opening of the Sports Museum of America - the new home of the Billie Jean King International Women’s Sports Center. Founded and curated by the Women's Sports Foundation, the Center features the only all-inclusive sports exhibit and hall of fame for women.
UM Cheering Alone
Published: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Women's Sports Foundation's Director of Public Policy Terri Lakowski is quoted in article about the University of Maryland becoming the first university to sanction cheerleading as a varsity sport.
School in Spotlight for Stance on Ref
Published: Sunday, March 02, 2008
Chief Program and Planning Officer Marj Snyder is quoted in Los Angeles Times and other publications regarding the removal of a referee from a boys’ basketball games after officials cited a policy stating that females are not allowed to officiate boys' games.
To Them Sports Bring Fame and Much More
Published: Sunday, February 17, 2008
Steven Crowe reports on the importance of Title IX and the absolute lack of women's sports prior to the law's passage in 1972. Using data from the Women’s Sports Foundation, Crowe tracks the increase in women’s participation in athletics and highlights the areas that still need improvement.
Tremors of Intent
Published: Friday, February 08, 2008
Women's Sports Foundation President Aimee Mullins is featured in the Kenneth Cole ad campaign "We All Walk in Different Shoes." The ad appears in magazines and billboards across the country, and Aimee becomes the subject of articles and blogs including this one from NewMobility.com.
New York Times Letter to the Editor
Published: Sunday, January 13, 2008
Women’s Sports Foundation President Aimee Mullins writes a letter to the editor regarding Marion Jones and her use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Let the Women Play
Published: Thursday, January 10, 2008
Donna Ledwin discusses the NCAA’s proposal to limit the use of male Division III practice players. Citing the Women’s Sports Foundation report "Who's Playing College Sports?", Ledwin explains that Title IX compliance is not on par with supporters' expectations and that this new regulation could give female Division III athletes increased athletic opportunities.