Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
By Laura Pappano
News of Judge Sylvia Pressler’s death last week – at 75 at a family home in Sparta, NJ – drew a few paragraphs in the newspaper, but hardly attracted huge attention.
And yet, as spring training gets underway and kids prepare for Little League tryouts (now a winter affair), ...
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Team USA faces off this afternoon against Finland in the final day of preliminary round play. Medals rounds ahead!
By Emilie Liebhoff
I recently took my three-year-old daughter ice-skating for the first time. I skated a few laps, did some quick crossovers, and pivoted back and forth. She was amazed. (I'm sure ...
Posted in GenNext: Sport Girls | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
By Megan Wood
Documentary filmmaker Jenny Mackenzie's film Kick Like a Girl conveys the empoweringand enlightening experience when a soccer team of 8 and 9-year-old girls plays in the boys division -- quite successfully. After Mackenzie's visit to Wellesley College last week, I spoke with three student athletes about why gender ...
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
By Katie Culver
Here’s a Super Bowl quiz question: Would you send your daughter to a football game in her underwear?
I wouldn’t. And yet, funny thing is, there’s women at every NFL football game in a close approximation of panties and bras. They just happen to be ...
Posted in Football, GenNext: Sport Girls | 4 Comments »
Monday, December 28th, 2009
By FGN contributors
Ignoring athletic development of girls. What’s wrong: Sports is the language of power and self-efficacy (a particularly urgent matter in places where females face violence and lack equal rights). Failure to encourage girls – whether in Texas or Bangladesh or on the preschool play lot – to learn ...
Posted in Money, Power & Politics | 5 Comments »
Monday, December 21st, 2009
By Katie Culver
1. A legitimately equal opportunity to develop athletic skills and play sports -- from the start.
This means: girls should be handed a ball (instead of a doll or toy purse) as soon as they can hold something. They should be dressed appropriately so they can run, climb, jump ...
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Girls playing handball in Bangladesh
By Laura Pappano
Sport is a tool for social, political and economic equality. In Bangladesh -- where girls face routine physical violence, child marriage, and are denied the same access to education as boys -- that couldn’t be more critical. Consider that the country’s ...
Posted in GenNext: Sport Girls, The Q&A | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
By Emilie Liebhoff
It bugs me. I drive by the fields in my town – and I only see men coaching the soccer teams. Don’t get me wrong. It’s wonderful when dads share quality time with their daughters and sons. But where are the moms?
Even in the backyard, it’s dad shooting ...
Posted in GenNext: Sport Girls, The Coaches | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
The visual is stunning.
Click here to see the Little League Softball World Series championship TV schedule. You’ll find ESPN2 (the channel broadcasting women’s college hoops unless there is a men’s game that can’t fit the ESPN or network schedule) is showing two semi-final games on Tues., Aug. 18 ...
Posted in Baseball, Money, Power & Politics | 4 Comments »
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Let’s get over the woe-is-us tone that shrouds women’s professional soccer. Yesterday’s NY Times story captured the uncertainty league bigwigs feel around the (admittedly) very challenging task of filling soccer stadiums, and getting enough sponsor and ad dollars to give WPS staying power – and in a recession.
What’s ...
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