Equity issues - women and girls

If Rugby really wants equality, and really wants to increase the representation of female coaches, it needs to take a systems approach,and no longer just focus on the women themselves. It needs to address the pathways that lead nowhere, environments that push women out, and structures that allow and reinforce male dominance. Unless the culture chan

The thing I keep thinking about with this partnership is how much Venus must be inspiring Leylah — not just in her tennis, but taking action for what is right in tennis, in women’s sports, and in the world. I’m certain Leylah will be a different human after this week.

• Allen McDuffee (Court Theory)

“Tennis is one of the sports where a lot of the players and even the people around it are cursed with comparison, and everyone looks at their counterparts and what everybody else is doing and compares your journey to theirs.

I said that I wanted to create and have a legacy. And that’s exactly what I’m doing.”

• Taylor Townsend

Now, as a mother of a three-year-old, leading businesses and investments, I have a very different perspective. And my everyday routine is very different. But I still get to carry all the disciplines of my sport.

The lessons I learned throughout the years are applied every single day. I'm just so grateful for them. The patience, the tenacity, being

Maria Sharapova, like Serena Williams and Roger Federer, is a master storyteller.

Whatever happens to her, whatever she wants to promote, whatever she wants to sell, whatever failure she has to cope with, Maria Sharapova will always turn it into a story.

It’s worth noting that Sharapova always made a point of keeping her results, her competitiveness, her hard work, and her brain at the center of her brand, not her appearance. She let the world talk about that - she’s not stupid; she made sure she was looking the part, but she never played the Barbie doll game.

Leadership work may just as often involve helping people learn to question widely accepted dogmas, slow down and reflect on the situation at hand, and caringly challenge authority—bosses included—instead of assuming they have all the answers. It can mean encouraging others to pause and consider things they’ve never taken time to ponder. To stay tru

Thanks to my two young daughters and a handful of 20-something women I’ve worked with during my time at InsideHook, I’ve developed quite a fondness for Taylor Swift and her ability to speak to multiple generations of women in a way that makes them feel seen and understood in a way that is deeply moving and life-affirming.

At the end of the day, thou

Solving tough problems is a team sport.