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The election makes this the time to keep sports safe for women and pass the 'Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.' It would preserve Title IX safeguards for female athletes.
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 ...
Trump signed the "No Men in Women’s Sports" executive order in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D..C., in front of female athletes on National Girls & Women in Sports Day.
While women today do have the opportunity to play professional sports, the pay for women's professional sports is significantly lower than it is in men's professional sports. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] An American feminist theory known as the gender pay gap in sports is an attempt to explain the causes behind these differences.
2017 – The US Women's National Hockey Team threatened to boycott the World Championship over a wage dispute with US Hockey. [11] About a week later, the US Women's National Hockey Team agreed to a four-year deal with US Hockey, which guaranteed fair pay and the same benefits that the US Men's National Hockey Team receives. [12]
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. [24] In the Nordic welfare states women obtain 10% of routine newspaper or TV sports coverage. [25]
Similarly, the Independent Women’s Voice, a conservative women’s policy organization, has sent Gaines, its ambassador, to urge Congress to pass policies that bar trans women and girls from sports.
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 ...