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EXPIRES: 11/15/2021 Strategies people can implement to improve conditions for women coaches are to undergo bias training, and to offer education for women coaching. It is also important to encourage...
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EXPIRES: 11/15/2021 For years, sports have been viewed as stereotypically male dominated, and many women are still facing negative stereotypes which are hurtful to their careers. Despite the narrative...
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EXPIRES: 11/15/2021 Having diverse and gender balanced teams is as important in the workforce as it is in sports. Women coaches discuss the various challenges women face in athletics, such as...
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EXPIRES: 11/15/2021 Nicole M. Lavoi wrote her book Women in Sports Coaching as a means of compiling all of her research on women’s coaching into one place, as well as to raise awareness to social...
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EXPIRES: 11/15/2021 With the increasing number of women in competitive sports, the need for women coaches is higher now than ever before. It is speculated that Title IX is the cause of the declining...
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Susan Pringle Frost, a mentor to the Pollitzer sisters, was the founder of the Charleston Equal Suffrage League. Anita Pollitzer went to work for that National American Women Suffrage Association...
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In the early twentieth century, a trio of sisters from Charleston, SC, known as the Pollitzer sisters (Carrie, Mabel, and Anita) embraced the opportunities for social reform. The Pollitzers came from...
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Support for women’s right to vote was growing in South Carolina. A custody battle and scandal between two legendary SC families gave the women’s suffrage movement a boost in SC. Lucy Pickens Dugas was...
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Beginning in 1899, the Poppenheim sisters published a monthly magazine called The Keystone. The magazine pointed out the manner in which the Confederate “Lost Cause” movement celebrated the...
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South Carolina, a mostly rural state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was racially divided and impoverished after Reconstruction. Its economy was mainly agrarian, growing crops...
