Playing to Win: Gender Equity, Professional Athletics, and Social Movements

• In Event: Protest and Apathy

Brief Overview

This paper compares two professional female sports organizations, The Women’s National Basketball Association and The US Women’s National Soccer Team, and their roles as political actors in pay equity advocacy and the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Authors

• Leanne Doherty Doherty, Simmons College

• Georgia Harper, Simmons College