Athlete Caster Semenya will need to take hormone-lowering agents, or have surgery, if she wishes to continue her career in her chosen events. But the decision to ban her is flawed on many grounds.
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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.
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.
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.
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Research associate, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Sociology, The Open University
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Professor, Physical Culture, Sport and Health and Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Australia, University of Bath
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Lecturer in Sport and Education, University of Bath
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Associate Professor, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, College of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University
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Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Fellow in Historical Studies, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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