Women and Sports
Women and Sports
Augusta National, one of the last good old boy holdouts, has changed it’s No Women policy and invited two women to join the private golf club. Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and business executive Darla Moore are now the first two women members in the clubs long history of excluding women. .
The London Olympics: 40 years after the Passage of Title IX , American women earned 58 medals – 29 of them gold, compared to the American men’s 45 medals, 15 gold. For the first time in Olympic history, there were more female athletes competing than males and every single participating country had at least one woman on its team. During the London Olympics the women athletes were able to show the world what they were capable of, as TIME magazine in their ‘Wonder Women” coverage stated, “London exposed a fallacy: that women’s sports are less gripping, less serious and less entertaining than men’s. The women have made glorious the Summer Olympics.”
On August 9 the NFL’s First Female Referee – Shannon Eastin broke pro football’s on-field gender barrier. the San Diego Charger players and team president welcomed her recognizing a historical moment . The cap & whistle Ms Eastin used for the game are going in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
