Archive for the ‘Money, Power & Politics’ Category
Friday, September 20th, 2013
By Laura Pappano
Exactly 40 years ago, over 30,000 spectators filled the Houston Astrodome and 50 million more tuned in on TV to watch “The Battle of the Sexes.”
Billie Jean King, a 29-year-old who would be #1 in the world for five years (winning six Wimbledon Championships and four U.S. Open ...
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Friday, June 21st, 2013
By Ashleigh Sargent
Of course we’re all talking about Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. There’s the public conversation about the gender gap in leadership in the U.S. (and controversy about some messages in Lean In) but as a recent college graduate and a female ...
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Friday, May 10th, 2013
By Ashleigh Sargent
Gail Marquis is a powerful woman in sports, business, and volunteer foundation work. She won a silver medal as a part of the 1976 U.S. Women’s Basketball Olympic Team and played basketball professionally in Europe, before taking her competitive drive and spirit to Wall Street where she worked ...
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
By Laura Pappano
It's March Madness and that means one thing: Time to vote with your pen, and rehearse your friendly trash-talking zingers.
The brackets are not just about the games, of course, but about the culture we create around the games. They are about the notice we give to female athletes, ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2013
By Laura Pappano
How perfect that National Girls and Women in Sports Day (who invented this cumbersome name?) arrives as the military prepares to lift it’s ban on women serving in combat.
The barriers that women have faced to such service sound like the battle for equal access and treatment in sport.
How ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
By Laura Pappano
In the introduction to the 30th anniversary issue of The Women's Review of Books, editor Amy Hoffman makes that point that -- yes -- this many years later we still need a forum for thoughtful, intellectual, political and passionate conversation about the meaning of gender in the printed, ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2013
By Laura Pappano
It’s draft day for the National Women’s Soccer League. Don’t bother turning on your TV or tuning into sports radio. Don’t expect NFL-style high drama.
Thanks to the rise of cheap media, though, you can catch it on Twitter and Facebook (NWSL doesn’t have its own website).
Sure, there is ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2013
By Laura Pappano
News that NFL veteran Junior Seau, who committed suicide last year, suffered from degenerative brain disease was hardly a revelation.
We paused, saddened, on Thursday when the National Institutes of Health announced that Seau’s brain revealed evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy – the result of absorbing frequent blows to ...
Posted in Football, Money, Power & Politics, The Athletes | Comments Off on Do we have the stomach for football?
Thursday, December 13th, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent and Mariah Philips
Get ready, it’s game day!!!!! As you prepare mentally and physically, you want help getting into your zone.
Which songs pop up on the warm-up playlist? Chances are, messages of female empowerment and gender equality are not major themes in your favorite jams.
In fact, it might ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_3037" align="alignleft" width="300"] Rachael Goldenberg at campaign HQ[/caption]
By Rachael Goldenberg
Politics is often spoken about in sports metaphors. This election cycle, however, I found that the comparison not only fits, but is key to being a successful political operative.
Just before graduation I was thrilled to accept a position on a high profile, high-intensity congressional ...
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