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Mediation Talks Between The USWNT And U.S. Soccer Were A Big Ol' DudThe long-anticipated mediation talks between U.S. Soccer and the USWNT have already ended, as of Wednesday afternoon. You are likely just learning about this week’s meetings for two reasons; first, because the participants agreed to maintain “the strictest secrecy” about their details, including tim...

U.S. Soccer Releases Dubious Numbers To Refute Claims Of Pay InequalityU.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro released a letter and accompanying fact sheet Monday evening intended to demonstrate that his federation invests more heavily in women’s soccer than it does in men’s. The purpose here is to refute the notion that men’s national team members are paid more than th...

Caster Semenya Wins Final 800-Meter Race Before The IAAF Can Start Discriminating Against HerFor the 30th straight time on the track, Caster Semenya won an 800-meter race. The South African runner led from the gun at today’s Diamond League meet in Doha, Qatar, winning by 2.77 seconds with a 1:54.98 result, the fourth-fastest time of her career....

IAAF Now Officially Allowed To Discriminate Against Caster Semenya

South African track star Caster Semenya has lost her appeal against the sport’s governing body, IAAF, and will have to take medicine to lower her natural levels of testosterone if she wants to continue to compete in her best event, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced today. ...

Entire U.S. Women's National Team Sues U.S. Soccer For Equal Pay

Three months before they begin their World Cup defense in France, 28 members of the United States Women’s National Team have filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against U.S. Soccer, the sport’s governing body, for paying the men’s team more than the women’s team. This suit, first reported on by th...

<i>Boston Globe</i> Report On ESPN Reveals Pregnancy Discrimination, Other Gendered Horrors<em></em>

A report published today by the Boston Globe details sexual harassment and gender discrimination at ESPN, including a former SportsCenter anchor feeling forced to stay on air while she was having a miscarriage so as not to jeopardize her job and another sending shirtless pictures of himself to a you...

EEOC Sides With Black Chair Umpire Who Said U.S. Tennis Association Discriminated Against Him<em></em>

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has determined that there was “reasonable cause to believe” that the country’s premier tennis organization discriminated against Tony Nimmons, a black chair umpire, “on account of his race and him engaging in a protected activity,” according to documents o...

Proposed Trump Budget Would Cripple The Overworked Office Enforcing Title IX

The federal office that investigates universities accused of discriminating against female students—including reports that schools are intentionally ignoring or downplaying allegations of sexual violence—is poised to lose 46 full-time employees under the proposed Trump administration budget, or 8 pe...