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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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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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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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
By Susan McGee Bailey
The U.S. Supreme Court last week remained silent in the case of a Texas cheerleader, but the message was alarmingly loud: It may be 2011, but high school girls don’t have the same rights as high school guys.
The Court declined to hear an appeal from a Texas ...
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Thursday, October 28th, 2010
By Laura Pappano
It's nearly election day, an apt time to recognize that -- yes -- sports are political. Not blue state-red state stuff, but equity, status, economic power.
At the New York Athletic Club yesterday, the Wellesley Centers for Women lunch/discussion fed a conversation that energized a room of more than ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
By Laura Pappano
Last spring, an op-ed published in the Christian Science Monitor -- "The Price Gap Between Men and Women's Basketball Tickets is Madness" -- drew a slew of responses and comments, including some that were awfully hostile about the prospect of women's play being 1) worthwhile watching and 2) ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Click here to read Laura Pappano's op-ed in today's Christian Science Monitor on why the price gap between men's and women's division 1 college basketball tickets is a travesty -- and perpetuates economic disparities on and off the court.
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