Women's sports gains a HUGE ally in WSF
Program will offer vivid description of the world of women's sport in the USA in the 1980s (just as effects of Title IX) were ripples on the ocean. Deborah Larkin (WSF CEO) and Dr. Marj Snyder...
View ArticleLong Road Up: Where is our modern starting line?
Dr. Jaime Schultz and Dr. Maureen (Mo) Smith are two of the most noted sport historians in the United States. They each have published scholarly works from a perspective which is broad and inclusive of...
View Article261-Fearless, Then and Now
The program spotlights the Kathrine Switzer life story; the woman who entered and finished the Boston marathon (by her initials only and long hair tucked under a hat), who finished that race even after...
View ArticleTo medal you have to get to the start line!
There is a perception, widely supported by the sport leadership hierarchy, that women have (or are approaching) equitable treatment. Facts belie this notion and our guests are exemplars of women still...
View ArticleMaking a champion 'famous'
Research studies in the USA, and globally, have consistently shown that women's sport and women athletes receive around 5% of media coverage of all types. This means if a female athlete wishes to...
View ArticleKinesiology to the rescue esp for disadvantaged females
Girls and women in sport have been shown to receive lower levels of community and media support and attention compared to their brothers even in communities already disadvantaged. With females...
View ArticleBreaking barriers: Motors, Tracks and Stereotypes
Many, indeed all, guests on this Series have braved the step into virtually 'all male' domains. I am not sure there could be any more daunting than 'the garage' at the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway....
View ArticleTranscending barriers inside and out
This show is real time captioned, Click the banner above to get the captions live! In all the 'Long Road Up' programs, guests have always spoken of the importance of accessibility and participation of...
View ArticleHow the Media Sees, Re-Creates Us
Multi national research has shown repeatedly that women's sport receives somewhere between 2 and 10 percent of media's attention span. The figures vary marginally when considering print compared to...
View ArticleFinding resources: By any means necessary
In each of our previous programs, it has repeatedly been emphasized that more resources are necessary in order for women's sport to advance. This truth holds at the individual, family, community,...
View ArticleSafe and empowering spaces for diverse sport communities
An earlier program dealt with the inclusion challenges of persons with deafness and those with mobility issues within sport, Today's program will also focus on inclusion and human rights in sport but...
View ArticleCoaching Empowerment: Going global
A famous USA men's coach is quoted as responding to a question about sport psychology on his team by pointing at his flexed bicep muscle and saying 'this is the only sport psychology I need'. It has...
View ArticleWhere we have been and what lies ahead
Coming to the end of this Series and our portion of 'The Long Road Up', we have guests who can share, not only perceptions of the journey thus far, but most importantly the way forward. Their...
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