South Africa’s Caster Semenya in the moments before the women’s 800-meter final during the Diamond League athletics event in Doha, Qatar on May 3. The world champion easily won the race, but her future remains in doubt.
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The great South African runner Caster Semenya may have competed in her last 800-metre race. She has been demonized for more than a decade, like many other female athletes before her.
Markham Thunder players celebrate winning the 2018 Clarkson Cup final as champions of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. The CWHL has announced it will cease operations.
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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.
Susanna Dinnage’s Premier League priority is to reconnect with fans.
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Madeleine De Gabriele, The Conversation; Phoebe Roth, The Conversation et Justin Bergman, The Conversation
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.
Companies should listen to both male and female employees on this issue and pay attention to any backlash.
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.
Latrobe Ladies Football Club in 1921, one of Australia’s first women’s football clubs.
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Women are still grossly underrepresented as chairpeople, directors or chief executives of international sporting bodies, to the great detriment of those sports.
Susan Alberti (left) and Debbie Lee were pivotal to the formation of the national women’s AFL competition.
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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.
The Southern Stars celebrate winning the Royal London One Day International Series in 2015.
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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.
Michelle Payne spoke of horse racing’s chauvinism following her victory on Prince of Penzance in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup.
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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.
This is what sexism looks like.
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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.
Mo'ne Davis riveted the nation last summer with her dominating performance in the Little League World Series.
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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