Archive for the ‘GenNext: Sport Girls’ Category
Sunday, April 7th, 2013
By Ashleigh Sargent and Mariah Philips
What does it mean for a #5 seed team like Louisville to be in the Final Four? That favorite Baylor was out early?
Women’s college basketball fans seldom get to watch a regional seed lower than #3 make it to the Final Four. Sure, on the ...
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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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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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Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
By Katie Culver
How can one not be inspired by the Olympics?! The 10 days of coverage I’ve watched remind me of my spirited Olympic dreams. As a young gymnast, I was rapt by Nadia Comaneci (the first perfect 10!) in 1980 and by Mary Lou Retton in 1984.
Women’s soccer years ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
By Laura Pappano
For those of us who think and write about gender and sport, Title IX never seems adequately enforced, to go far enough, or to be effective enough in addressing the inequities in our culture around sport. And -- still! -- it's often under fire, forcing us to ardently ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
By JoAnne Pappano
Title IX passed in 1972 when I was 27. I remember thinking, “This is a good thing because I have three daughters.”
I graduated from Cleveland Heights High School in 1962 and it was a much different time. It was a boy’s world. Girls my age felt that the ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
By Laura Pappano
When Title IX became law in June 1972, I was 10 and unaware of what it was or would do. I had discovered that being a girl could be limiting.
My father, a volunteer Little League coach, honed my baseball skills in the backyard but wouldn’t let me join ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
By Olivia Lynch
Title IX was designed to give women the resources and opportunities to prove their abilities on and off the field. However, strangely enough, what I most appreciate about Title IX (as it relates to sports) is the way in which it has catalyzed the creation of an athletic environment in which ...
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
By Molly Lynch
Title IX has always existed for me, and sports have always been part of my life.
In kindergarten, I played YMCA soccer. By third grade, I was on my town’s travel team. Throughout elementary school, we played “girls vs. boys” soccer at recess (and we usually won). In middle ...
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
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 there is simply not enough of it. Some low-performing schools ...
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