For me, what began out of curiosity and the search for a good workout blossomed into something that has encouraged me to grow more confident and demand more of myself than I thought possible.
On September 10 Gauff won her first-ever Grand Slam tournament after defeating Aryna Sabalenka.
The tournament was not only a financial success, but also a success in terms of advancing gender equality globally.
In Indian-occupied Kashmir, where inequality and gender discrimination have been the norm for decades, a young talent has emerged as a beacon of hope.
The Women's World Cup has finally secured its place within the prestigious FIFA video games.
Women’s college basketball didn’t only breathe comfortably this year; it was triumphant.
After allegations surfaced that the school’s girls sports teams were significantly underfunded and undervalued, students claimed Campbell violated Title IX, which prohibits gender discrimination in public schools or any program that receives federal funding.
Afghan-born Meena Asadi has had to upend her life several times to survive.
The Tour de France is the most highly anticipated, popular cycling event worldwide.
On July 28, the greatest gymnast in history, Simone Biles, withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics
All of these cases elicit a similar feeling of Black women being treated cruelly and unfairly based on arbitrary rules.
“Skateboarding is usually considered to be a boy’s sport, but we were meeting so many girls and boys who were taking to skateboarding and really thriving at it."
The obvious, enduring inequities between men’s and women’s college basketball were spotlighted last month when a 37-second video filmed by Oregon forward Sedona Prince went viral.
The lack of television coverage of female athletes creates an illusion that there is not a significant number of female athletes worthy of admiration — that they are failing — when in fact, there are many who are very successful.
Semenya is banned from competing unless she artificially medically intervenes to modify her natural condition.
Bryant’s athletic prowess does not entitle him to the cultural benefit of the doubt, placing his protection over that of his alleged victim.
There has never been a female winner of Formula 1 (F1) racing — the most prestigious category in the motorsport. But 13-year-old Juju Noda wants to change that.
15-year-old Tanyaradzwa “Tanya” Muzinda is a motocross champion. The Zimbabwean teenager began competing in the dangerous sport at five years old with the support of her father, a former biker himself.
In the beginning of August, 18-year-old Khadijah Mellah from Peckham, Britain, became the first jockey in her country to compete while wearing a hijab. She also won the race, which was the Magnolia Cup at Goodwood — a charity event supporting the organization Wellbeing of Women.
When the first Argentinian women’s soccer league launched in 1991, the athletes involved were considered amateur and not paid. Almost 30 years later, they’re still unpaid, but that might soon change:
Charlie Martin is a British racing driver who was set to become the first trans woman to race as a support race in the world’s oldest sports endurance car racing contest: the 24 Hours of Le Mans, also known as “Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency.”
According to the BBC, as of 2012, the 62nd year of F1, only five women had ever entered the Grand Prix, the last of whom had competed in the 1990s.
The WNBA is ushering in its 23rd season, and, with it, huge changes
At 22 years old, standing at 5 feet, 7 inches and weighing 164 pounds, this year Harris became one of the only women to ever earn a scholarship to play college football.