When the Canadian Women’s Hockey League announced it was folding, it was seen as a setback for women’s hockey. But history suggests the death of one hockey league leads to new opportunities.
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Research shows sport is commonly a bastion for male dominance and privilege.
The value of sport
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As we reach the World Cup's halfway point, we're asking: what is sport worth? On today's episode, we explore the money and diplomatic power plays lingering behind the scenes of every big tournament.
Research has found Silicon Valley engineers feared speaking up when they recognise poor behaviour among their male colleagues.
The reality of life as a female sports star.
Several initiatives have been launched to foster a sporting culture more conducive to the involvement of women in South Africa, including new laws. But evidence shows much still needs to be done.
Women’s soccer had just found its feet in the roaring ‘20s when state ruling bodies began to force female players from the field.
There has so far been scant understanding of – or credit given to – the historical background to the creation of the AFL women’s league.
The former England captain was a towering figure in sport, but her mission to reduce inequality in cricket remains unfinished.
Women are still grossly underrepresented as chairpeople, directors or chief executives of international sporting bodies, to the great detriment of those sports.
Change Agents: Establishing a national women’s football league
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Andrew Dodd talks to Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee about their fight to overcome prejudice and establish a national women's AFL competition.
The United Nations is using an exhibition roller derby match in Beijing as a way of promoting China’s groundbreaking domestic violence laws. This fast-paced, full-contact sport is challenging traditional ideas about female athletes.
There’s been plenty of commentary about Novak Djokovic’s recent remarks on women’s bodies and the pay gap in sport. He’s right that men and women are different – but female athletes are working a lot harder.
Almost all of the decision-makers in horse racing are male, and they almost invariably favour their own sex.
If a misogynistic atmosphere is allowed to prevail in men’s individual and team sports, then all the platitudes about sport being a socially positive force stand exposed.
Leave debates about on-court banter aside and focus on the victim here.
While women achieve great things on field, off-field administrators need to make sure they’re supported.
The AFL draws the biggest crowds in the country and its growth has been driven by female fans being drawn to the game and sticking with it as they get older.
The intense spotlight on one female baseball star might lead some to believe that she’s the first and only one. She’s not.
Sport England has launched This Girl Can – an edgy promotional campaign that seeks to inspire women to challenge cultural assumptions about femininity that prevent them engaging in sport and exercise…
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Lecturer in Sport and Education, University of Bath
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Research associate, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Gender Equity in Sport, Griffith University
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Professor Emeritus of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto
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Senior lecturer, Griffith University
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Professor of Sociology, The Open University
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, First Year College, Victoria University
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Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University
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Researcher, Western Sydney University
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Professor and Dean, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Strategy, King's College London
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Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
