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Khelif was disqualified from the 2023 world championships after failing unspecified and untransparent eligibility tests for women's competition from the now-banned International Boxing Association.
Newly crowned Women’s World Cup winner Alexia Putellas spoke passionately after Sunday’s final victory over England about the need for FIFA to “take note” of the issues facing women in the ...
Already World Athletics, which oversees track and field, said it will reexamine its policy, and president Sebastian Coe, himself a four-time Olympic medalist, supported FINA’s approach. Other ...
There were also other team-specific issues. Women's football journalist Suzanne Wrack noted that the types of controversial issues at the Women's World Cup were different to those of the Men's World Cup, and were mainly issues related to the gender gap in professionalism of football; [1] she opined that the 2023 Women's World Cup and the ...
In 2022, World Aquatics banned transgender women from women's categories, [177] with global organisers of both rugby codes also having done so in 2020 and 2022. A similar decision was taken by World Athletics in March 2023, banning all athletes who had been through male puberty from competing in women's categories.
The passing of Title IX in 1972 generated a wave of female participation in athletics, as well as increased funding for female sports. Following their win of the 2015 FIFA World Cup, the US Women's Soccer Team highlighted gender discrimination in sport and brought about another movement towards achieving equal pay in sports. [3]
The House passed the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," which could change Title IX protections and ensure only people assigned female at birth participate in women and girls athletics ...
Although all women are facing some degree of inequality within the sports administrative work place, barriers are more severe for black women in the industry. Jeanie Marie Buss is one example of a woman holding a powerful position in the sports industry. According to Forbes in 2011, Jeanie Buss "is one of few powerful women in sports management ...