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We may be consumed with reading yesterday’s 193-page healthcare decision and all the corresponding analysis, but we also found time for some Bloomer Girls-related reading. Check it out: The Big Lead has a piece on hurdler Lolo Jones’s appearance on Jay Leno. Jones placed third in the U.S. hurdling qualifiers. So why didn’t first place Dawn [...]
Another Double Fault: Less Money, No Grunting?
It seems that Wimbledon is bringing out the worst in gendered tennis this year. First, Gilles Simon, seeded 13th in this year’s men’s tournament, went on the record last week, saying that “men’s tennis is ahead of women’s tennis” and that the men provide more entertainment and play longer, so they should be paid more. [...]
Paternity Leave in Professional Sports
While nearly everyone who chooses to juggle a career and parenting faces difficult challenges, as I mentioned in my post about Griswold v. Connecticut, athletes face a particularly tough balancing act because the window for their career is so much shorter than for other careers and because the best time for childbearing coincides with the height of [...]
IOC Adopts Sex-Verification Policy Based on Testosterone Levels
As expected, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has adopted regulations based on maximum testosterone levels for women competing in Olympic events. From the New York Times: The organization said the new regulations involve a test to see whether a woman’s natural testosterone levels fall within the normal range of a man, although the I.O.C. does [...]
Title IX 40th Anniversary: Internet Round-Up
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, which undoubtedly improved the lives of women and girls in the United States. Of course, there is still an incredible amount that needs to be done to level the playing field (as it were) between male and female athletes in schools. For example, over the [...]
Why the IOC’s Proposed Sex Verification Policy Sucks
Ideals of femininity have always been an issue when women are linked with sports. Obviously this is the case, or Lydia and I wouldn’t feel the need to write this blog; in reality, the number of gender-based issues regarding sports is so large, that we often don’t cover everything that comes up. It can be [...]
Geno Auriemma’s Sexual Harassment Suit
The New York Times reported Monday that a security director for the NBA, Kelley Hardwick, has brought a sexual harassment and retaliation suit against Geno Auriemma, longtime coach for the UConn women’s basketball team who is now the coach of the Olympic women’s basketball team. According to the Times, the incident occurred in 2009 when the U.S. [...]
First Female Prizewinner in Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
Neat news coming out of Texas this week in professional bullriding (which is totally a sport.) Apparently, many female bullriders had competed in Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) shows for prize money. But until this week, no woman had ever won prize money in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). Now, 19 year-old bullrider (is that the [...]
What Griswold Means for Female Athletes
Today is the 47th anniversary of the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), which, in striking down a criminal ban on contraceptives, recognized for the first time that the United States Constitution guarantees a right to privacy, and that this right encompasses a right to obtain and use contraceptives. (For all you legal eagles [...]
What’s Missing From Women’s Tennis? Female Coaches
There’s a great article out of the USA Today this week about the significant lack of female tennis coaches for female professional tennis players (and NCAA-level women’s tennis teams.) Despite the fact that both high-profile players Victoria Azarenka (ranked #1 in the world) and Taylor Townsend (winner of the 2012 Junior Australian Open) have female [...]
