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Happy Girls and Women in Sports Day!
This day marks the 35th celebration of Girls and Women in Sports Day. In 2020, women’s sports were able to demonstrate that people will watch and support them and advocate for greater change.
This day marks the 35th celebration of Girls and Women in Sports Day. In 2020, women’s sports were able to demonstrate that people will watch and support them and advocate for greater change.
WNBA players played a role in getting Sen. Warnock elected and continued to take a stand on racial and social justice-related issues, even if it meant risking their careers.
USWNT players continue to fight for equal pay while the NWSL saw the first successful COVID sports bubble in the United States. In addition, women are being hired in major coaching and management roles in the MLB, NBA, and NFL.
However, women’s sports are not just some feel-good investment that people should support because they’re making an impact in the world and as role models for daughters. Sports in our society serve as a cultural, communal, and overall exercise outlet for many of us.
They’re are a major part of our culture and like everything else, representation is important. For too long, the culture around sports has been kept exclusive with loyalty and trivia tests as well as blatant sexism and racism, which has kept countless people out of participation.
Even in the most open-minded women’s sports spheres, we see this tension of protecting the “tradition” and what has existed with pushback in allowing the growing number of trans athletes to be part of women’s sports.
So on this virtual 2021 NGWSD, I’m going to be respecting the people who came before me who advocated for Title IX and those who are continuing to protect it with the inclusion of trans athletes (thanks, @WomensSportsFdn ).
I’m also going to continue my own efforts to make sure every girl has an opportunity to participate in sports ( @IWBC) as well as screaming into the abyss that professional women’s sports are a viable market (and get everyone I know into the drama of the WNBA free agency)
