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The House passed the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," which could change Title IX protections and ensure only people assigned female at birth participate in women and girls athletics ...
A 2021 white paper for YouGov surveyed reasons why viewers around the world don't engage with women’s sports as much. The top reasons given were: "less media coverage," "lack of knowledge of ...
"Everyone Watches Women's Sports." is a phrase intended to both promote and reflect the rise in popularity in women's sports in 2024. The phrase was first published on a shirt released in December 2023 by Togethxr, an apparel brand founded by Sue Bird, Alex Morgan, Simone Manuel, and Chloe Kim.
Because of this, female athletes competing in sports have used their public outreach to spread awareness of the discrimination they face; women have also worked to exceed societal standards and expectations through public displays and by outdoing men in certain sports. In the 1996 Summer Olympics, Kerri Strug competed as a US gymnast.
Each year since its inception in 1987, the United States Congress recognizes women's contributions to sports and society on a day during the first week of February. [3] NGWSD is celebrated annually across the United States and features community-based events, notable women athletes, awards, and other activities.
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In a 2015 study, Billings and Young compared coverage of women's sports on ESPN's Sports Center and Fox Sports 1's Fox Sports Live, in which both TV programs were found to cover women's sports less than 1% of the time. [25] In the Nordic welfare states women obtain 10% of routine newspaper or TV sports coverage. [26]
Of the 934 local network affiliate news segments (over 12 hr of broadcasts), 880 were on men's sports (or approximately 11½ hr), 22 segments (or nearly 18 min) were on gender-neutral sports (e.g., a horse race, coverage of the Los Angeles [LA] marathon, and a recreational sports event), and only 32 segments (about 23 min) featured women's sports.