Category: The Gender Sports Gap
The Gender Sports Gap
The stories sports history forgot. The stories we forgot.
Women have always shaped sport. They broke records, challenged conventions and changed what people believed the female body could achieve. Yet many of their names, victories and struggles disappeared from the history we were taught.
The Gender Sports Gap brings these stories back into view. Chapter by chapter, this growing book explores the athletes, events and decisions that shaped women’s sport — and asks why so many of them were forgotten. Or muted.
The Gender Sports Gap
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- 0 | Prologue
- 1 | The Race Women Were Not Supposed to Run
- 2 | Gertrude Ederle: The Fastest Swimmer. Remembered as the First Woman.
- 3 | Alice Coachman: The Champion Who Still Couldn’t Walk Through the Front Door
- 4 | Kathrine Switzer: The Woman They Tried to Remove
- 5 | Bobbi Gibb: The Woman Before the Photograph
- 6 | Beryl Burton: The Greatest Cyclist Nobody Told You About
- 7 | Junko Tabei: The Mountain Didn’t Care
- 8 | Surya Bonaly: The Backflip They Couldn’t Ignore
- 9 | Ilona Maher: On Her Own Terms
- 10 | Serena Williams: The Rules Were Different
- 11 | Florence Griffith-Joyner: Do You Remember Her?
- 12 | Rachel Entrekin: Why Not Me?