"We aim to make the USL Super League globally recognized and admired for its community-building, operational excellence, financial sustainability, and high level of competition. With these objectives in mind, we deepen our commitment to equitable treatment of our men's and women's pathways, and to create career opportunities for women to play professional soccer, women coaches, women technical directors, and women soccer executives. We at the USL League Office are united in our passion and commitment to the pursuit of this vision."

The use of "Lady" with sports teams has been a divisive issue over the years, and many programs who used it in the 1970s in the early days of women's college athletics got rid of it, some as early as the 1980s. The vast majority of colleges no longer use it for any of their women's teams.

Asked by Ontario Hockey League TV about how she wanted to be seen by Sarnia Sting fans, she said, "Treat me like a normal player. Don't think of it as a girl, that I stand out. I want to be a normal teammate to all the boys. I want to be a family with them."

"It’s important to me that the bigger message is this isn’t women at the expense of men," says team owner Beth Paretta, whose vision to create a coed race team has been six years in the making. "I'm trying to expand the grid."

The Dutch Football Association has announced a pioneering rule change which will see men and women able to play alongside each other in amateur football teams from next season. Previously, when women reached the age of 18 years old, they were unable to continue playing alongside their male teammates.

While the gender gap already existed in professional hockey, the pandemic has widened it even more. U.S. veteran forward Brianna Decker explained, "I'm not one to always turn to that; I don't draw conclusions, I don't speculate. But in this situation, this never would have happened if it was a men's tournament. They would have already had a Plan B, and made it happen somehow."

"It's no different than us watching our new Vice President [Kamala Harris]. It's no different than us watching Stacey Abrams. It's no different than us watching Oprah Winfrey...When you're seeing women aspiring, and how powerful and how smart and how good they are at whatever craft, you have to share... This is the way we can help little girls growing up."

“An American League front-office analyst said her team did not have any women's bathrooms at all on the same floor as the baseball operations office -- despite the fact that she was working in a stadium built in the 2000s.”

The science shows that it isn't a case of women's feet simply being smaller than men's. Put bluntly, wearing shoes designed for men could put women at risk for lower limb and feet injuries.

COVID-19 ravaged the world in 2020. The virus, which was silently transmitted, brought services to their knees. Those working on the frontlines were not just doctors, nurses, teachers or police anymore. Suddenly, they were counsellors to members of their communities who had lost everything. Amid this, elite women athletes who normally balance sport and their vocation stepped up.

"What this person should have remembered from that day was the fact that I shot 64 and beat every male golfer in the field leading our team to victory. I shudder thinking he was smiling to my face and complimenting my game while objectifying me and referencing my 'panties' behind my back all day."