#GAReads | An Important Year for Women's Sports, Paused by Coronavirus

Megan Rapinoe at the US Women's National Team Victory Tour 2019 at Allianz Field in St Paul, Minnesota on September 3, 2019. Photo credit: Lorie Shaull [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

“An Important Year for Women's Sports, Paused by Coronavirus”:

This was set to be a groundbreaking year for women’s sports.

The United States women’s national soccer team has sued its governing body, claiming gender discrimination, and received widespread support in its battle. The W.N.B.A. and its players union have agreed on a collective bargaining agreement that will increase salaries and provide new maternity benefits. The Women’s Tennis Association has been awarding record-breaking prize money. The National Women’s Hockey League got an increased schedule of 24 games, as well as new sponsors and owners.

But that was all before game-by-game cancellations turned into a flood of proclamations that “due to an abundance of caution” over coronavirus risks, this season would be canceled, that venue shut down, this competition postponed.

Read Talya Minsberg’s full article at The New York Times here…