These Title IX Times
AMERICAN university women have often displayed an intolerance of injustice, joining in activist organizations to oppose mistreatment of the marginal and oppressed. Given this history, when will...
View ArticleFemale Athletes Who Play to Please
MR. TALL writes: There’s an interesting book by New York Times reporter Michael Sokolove called Warrior Girls that documents the staggering rates at which girls playing seemingly ‘safe’ sports such...
View ArticleThe Female Warriors at the London Olympics
A READER, Susan-Anne White, wrote the following letter to a Northern Ireland newspaper yesterday: The “sport” of women’s boxing is listed as an event (for the first time ever) at this summer’s...
View ArticleIs Golf the Ideal Women’s Sport?
BEN writes: The prevalence of debilitating sports injuries among young women in my age range (25) is alarming. I suggest an alternative sport for young women: golf. It can be played without great...
View ArticleInequality and Women’s Sports
TITLE IX, the federal law which institutionalized discrimination against men in collegiate athletics, has not been a success, say sports experts interviewed by The New York Times. That’s because...
View ArticleThe Parade of Amazons Begins
KAREN I. writes: The following photo of two American women Olympic soccer players is on the front page of the The Wall Street Journal today. The woman on the right is not in the newspaper photo,...
View ArticleViews of Women Olympians
FOUR out of five Time magazine special-issue Olympic covers feature women athletes, including hurdler Lolo Jones, above. Four out of five. Magazines often emphasize Olympic women gymnasts and ice...
View ArticleEquality Still Elusive at the Olympics
THOUGH this is the first year in Olympic history that all of the participating teams, even Saudi Arabia, include female athletes, there are still significant hurdles to equality, writes Jere Longman of...
View ArticleOn Moderation in Women’s Sports
JOHN PURDY writes: On the question of athletics for girls and women I would argue that some hyper-masculine athletics like weight-lifting, boxing and a few other sports are not really for women and...
View ArticleMaybe Women’s Basketball Fans Should be Paid
GENO AURIEMMA, the prominent women’s basketball coach at the University of Connecticut, has an idea for getting more people to watch the women’s games. He wants the standard height of the rim to be...
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