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1996 – Women's soccer and women's softball became medal sports at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta for the first time; both events were won by US teams. [ 46 ] 1996 – The first baseball glove made to fit a woman's hand was sold by Spalding Sports.
This is a timeline of the gender pay gap in sports, spanning from the 20th century to the 21st century. It includes the major events that resulted in the equal pay of male and female athletes in varying sports across the world.
The UConn Huskies women's basketball team obtained the longest winning streak in college basketball (both men's and women's), 111 straight wins, which started with a win against Creighton on December 23, 2014, and continued for 111 games until March 31, 2017, when they were beaten 66–64 on a last second shot in overtime by Mississippi State ...
In the late 1900s Women's Sports started to gain popularity in the media because of their talent in the Olympics. [198] In 1999, women's sports coverage reached an all-time high when it was recorded at 8.7%. It maintained its higher percentages until it reached an all-time low in 2009, decreasing to 1.6%.
Multi-sport American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias was breaking boundaries in sports in the early 1900s. She was voted the Greatest Female Athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the ...
• Women switch from 3000 to 5000 metres at major championships bringing men's and women's programmes closer together. The 3000 metres will now be run only sporadically at major outdoor events, most significantly at the European Cup. • 1995 South American Championships in Athletics is the first major event to hold women's hammer throw.
What Women Want Now is a program by Yahoo Sports and her sister sites dedicated to creating content about the issues and stories that matter most to women. Read more here.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics marked a pivotal moment in sports history with significant strides towards inclusivity and diversity. Notably, Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard's participation in the women's super heavyweight weightlifting event highlighted the Olympics' evolving stance on gender representation.