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Women in Football Fail to Score Top Jobs Off the Pitch

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July 23, 2023

Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on challenge faced by women in football to join the executive level of clubs: Andreea Koenig, a director of French football club Racing Club de Lens, says often in her job she walks [...]

Athlete Moms Are Fighting Battles in and out of Sports. What Will It Take to Win?

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July 22, 2023

Via Global Sport Matters, an article on how the past decade has seen unprecedented institutional gains for pregnant and parenting women athletes, yet a persistent maternal health crisis, the fight for bodily autonomy, and the [...]

Megan Rapinoe: Creating Space On and Off the Field

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July 22, 2023

Courtesy of The Washington Post, a look at how Megan Rapinoe’s incandescent career changed more than women’s soccer: The tattoo, petite and scripted in cursive, reads: “Nature ran her course.” Megan Rapinoe had the [...]

At the Women’s World Cup, Mothers Are Flourishing

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July 22, 2023

Via The Economist, a report that football is at last accepting that players can have both children and careers: The current generation of American women footballers have already struck one significant blow for equality. In [...]

Playing the Long Game: Can the FIFA World Cup Help Level the Playing Field for All Women Footballers?

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July 21, 2023

Via The Conversation, a look at how the FIFA World Cup help level the playing field for all women footballers: There’s little doubt the FIFA Women’s World Cup will deliver spectacle and significant financial rewards when [...]

NFL Coach Kevin Maxen Comes Out, The First in Men’s Major Sports

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July 21, 2023

Via Outsports, commentary on why Jaguars coach Kevin Maxen coming out is so significant: The average career for an NFL player is 3.3 years. In Major League Baseball, it’s 5.6 years, while the NBA and NHL average is 4.5 years [...]

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