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Tennis player’s response to question about female coach sends important message about equality

sudshr47 January 23, 2019

A top French tennis player’s response to a question about the hiring of female tennis coaches prompted an enormous cheer from the crowd at the Australian Open.

Lucas Pouille — who will play Novak Djokovic on Friday at his first grand slam semi-final — was asked a question by John McEnroe about his coach.

McEnroe interviewed Pouille immediately after he defeated Milos Raonic in the quarter-final. He referred to Pouille’s decision to hire former tennis player Amelie Mauresmo, a former world number one. Read more…

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World Surf League announces equal prize money for men and women

sudshr47 September 6, 2018

The World Surf League (WSL) has set the standard for other sports by announcing equal prize money for men and women.
Coming into force from the 2019 season, the move makes it the first U.S.-based global sports league to implement pay parity at the ev…

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What Star Wars audiences are saying: Give us more women

sudshr47 June 3, 2018

Spoiler alert: This post contains a key detail from Solo: A Star Wars Story.

We’re now in the second weekend of the first Star Wars movie since 2005 to feature a male lead. And we still don’t know whether it will turn a profit — unlike the prior three movies of the Disney-Lucasfilm era, all of which had female leads.

The question is, will the Mouse House take a hint?

To be sure, Solo‘s financial woes have little to do with Alden Ehrenreich’s gender. They have more to do with the boyish antics of its first directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who butted heads with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, who summarily replaced them with Ron Howard, who deemed most of their footage unusable. That ballooned the budget to the point where a $100 million opening weekend was a disappointment. Read more…

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New Zealand female soccer players will be paid the same as men

sudshr47 May 8, 2018

New Zealand has taken a huge step when it comes to equality in sport.
The country’s chief footballing organisation, New Zealand Football, and the New Zealand Professional Footballers’ Association (NZPFA) have come to an agreement which will see inter…

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The woman shaking up the conservative world of auctioneering

sudshr47 May 4, 2018

Auctioneering has always been a man’s world. Now women, like Helena Newman, Co-Head for Impressionist and Modern Art Worldwide at Sotheby’s, are putting the hammer down on this particular glass ceiling with elegance and poise.

Newman is also taking the auction for major evening sales (the fanciest and of highest value auctions) of impressionist and modern art in London and New York. At an auction in March, she broke a record for highest price for a painting ever sold in Europe. Read more…

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