Last week Diana Nyad attempted to swim from Cuba to the United States, a feat she first undertook 33 years ago while in her 20s. Elayne Clift celebrates her prowess and that of her sportswomen peers.
Hidden from view during America's most-watched TV spectacle, thousands of girls are being exploited. The Women's Funding Network and other advocates are focusing a national spotlight on the plague o...
At a time when both arts and physical education classes are threatened with extinction due to school budget cutbacks, non-profit programs are all the more important, especially for underserved girls.
With all the excitement of the summer games, you may have missed this juicy bit of “news” from Olympic Village: as soon as their competition ended, the athletes apparently got rather busy themselves...
With a name derived from one of Americas most recognized landmarks, the New York Liberty has a rich past. One of the eight original teams to begin the WNBA in 1997, the team has retired basketball greats such as Teresa Weatherspoon and Rebecca Lobo, and has graced the WNBA finals four times. The women’s league, however, still struggles for attention.
Two University of Colorado-Boulder women deserve their day in court, a federal appeals court has ruled. Lisa Simpson and Anne Gilmore charged that football recruiting programs sanctioned by the univ...
Along with most people in this country, you probably haven't noticed that the U.S. women's national soccer team, ranked number one in the world by FIFA (soccer's governing body), is off in China com...
When, 35 years ago this past June, Richard Nixon signed into law the Educational Amendments of 1972, no one paid much attention to a short section on gender equity that has become popularly known as...
In just one year of obfuscation and several apparent lies to a judge, defense attorneys and the public in a single case, a North Carolina prosecutor has undermined decades of progress toward justice...
Periodically, some new wound rips the scab off our national, livid scar where sex and race intersect: the young law professor, Anita Hill, shaming Congress by her dignity and inspiring women with he...
The Reverend Al Sharpton, a key point man on the successful campaign against Don Imus this week, gave clear signals that this was the beginning rather than the end of the war.
Long searching for a...
C. Vivian Stringer, the coach of the Imus-defamed college basketball team, got it exactly right this morning on the CBS Early Show, calling her young women an “instrument of change.” As the story de...
“Mr. Imus has stolen a moment of pure grace from us.”
Rutgers’ team leader Essence Carson, who said she and her team were “highly angered… and deeply saddened” by Don Imus’ remarks, said that the ...
That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos . . . "
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
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It’s the Super Bowl of women’s sports this week in Cleveland, Ohio: the NCAA Women’s Final Four is in town after years of planning. Even security guards at the sold-out Quicken Loans arena marvel at...
A new documentary opening this weekend highlights a growing issue for women's sports—what happens when you get pregnant?
The WNBA celebrates its 10th anniversary this summer, and with 14 teams, th...