UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk delivered a speech on Wednesday urging UN member states to invest more effort in addressing the gender gap in sports and promoting the rights of women ...

Lack of knowledge about a sport can carry real psychological weight. Social exclusion threatens our core needs for belonging, ...

Fitness among young adults varies widely from one country to another, and is strongly associated with both socioeconomic development and gender equality, a new study from Karolinska Institutet ...

After the Taliban banned women's sport in Afghanistan, most of the women's cricket team ended up relocating to Australia. Now ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Cheryl Cooky, a Purdue University associate professor of American studies, can talk about sexism and issues of gender equality in the Olympic Games, as well as related news ...

For decades, collegiate and professional sports have not been gender equitable — for men and female sports. The inequality between male and female sports remains a significant issue, despite progress ...

National Girls & Women in Sports Day is observed across the United States during the first week of February to celebrate the achievements of female athletes and highlight the broader role sports play ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Women’s soccer club owner Michele Kang won a gender equality award from the International Olympic Committee on Monday. Kang, who owns French powerhouse OL Lyonnes, ...

In June 2024, a group of anti-trans feminists crisscrossed the U.S. with right-wing women activists to “take back” a civil rights law.

When Alycia “The Bomb” Baumgardner steps into the ring at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, she won’t be fighting only South Korean boxer Bo Mi Re Shin for the women’s super featherweight belt.

The FC Barcelona has officially renewed its contract with Nike until 2038 following an extraordinary assembly.