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Historic hires, massive contracts and<\/strong> <\/strong><\/em>shattered records.<\/strong> Wherever these female coaches lead, we\u2019ll gladly follow<\/a>.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc8 NFL: <\/strong>The 2022 NFL season<\/a> featured 15 women in coaching roles, the most there\u2019s ever been in any<\/em> professional male league.<\/p>\n \u26be\ufe0f MLB: <\/strong>MLB also saw increased representation<\/a>, with at least 11 women working as on-field coaches in major and minor league clubs in 2022. And the ranks are already expanding<\/a> this year. You know what they say about diamonds.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc0 WNBA: <\/strong>The 2022 season saw former W star Becky Hammon return to the league as head coach of the Las Vegas Aces and become the first head coach to win a WNBA championship in her debut season.<\/p>\n SOURCE: VCG\/VCG VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Numbers never lie <\/strong>\u2014 more viewers are watching women\u2019s sports than ever before. If you stream it\u2026<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc0 WNBA: <\/strong>An average of 379K viewers<\/a> tuned into regular season games last year, making it the league\u2019s highest viewed<\/a> regular season in 14 years.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udf93\ud83c\udfc0 NCAA basketball: <\/strong>The 2022 title game between South Carolina and UConn pulled in 4.85M viewers<\/a> (!!!), making it the most-watched college basketball game, men\u2019s or women\u2019s, on ESPN since 2008. And don\u2019t be surprised if a new record is set this year.<\/p>\n \u26bd\ufe0f Euro 2022: <\/strong>The 2022 Women\u2019s European Championship<\/a> averaged 365M viewers globally, making it the most watched edition of the tournament. Euro 2022 also broke crowd record attendance as the final drew 87,192 fans to Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfd2 Hockey: <\/strong>During the 2022 Beijing Olympics, 2.7M people tuned in on CBC<\/a> to watch Canada dethrone the reigning champ U.S. squad, notching a record for the most-watched event of the Games in the Great White North.<\/p>\n \u26bd\ufe0f NWSL: <\/strong>915K viewers<\/a> tuned in to see the Portland Thorns beat the Kansas City Current and claim the 2022 NWSL title, marking a 71% viewership increase from the 2021 championship.<\/p>\n SOURCE: MIAMI MARLINS<\/p>\n <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Business in the front (office), <\/strong>party in the back. Women are making history in the highest ranks all across the sports world.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc0 NBA: <\/strong>Cynt Marshall became the first Black woman to serve as CEO of an NBA team when she joined the Dallas Mavericks in 2018 helping transform the reeling organization<\/a> into one focused on diversity and inclusivity. According to Marshall, she took the job \u201cfor the sisterhood<\/a>.\u201d BRB, crying real tears.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfd2 NHL: <\/strong>In September 2022, analytics whiz Alexandra Mandrycky was promoted to assistant general manager (AGM) of the Seattle Kraken, becoming one of six female AGMs in the league this season.<\/p>\n \u26be\ufe0f MLB: <\/strong>We can\u2019t not <\/em>mention the Miami Marlins\u2019 Kim Ng, who made history when she became the first female MLB general manager (GM) back in 2020, shattering glass as the first-ever female GM of any major North American sports league.<\/p>\n SOURCE: PRESLEY ANN\/GETTY IMAGES FOR VICTORIA’S SECRET<\/p>\n <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n \ud83d\udcb5 Eight female athletes made at least $10M in 2022<\/strong> and the top 25 highest-paid raked in a collective $285M<\/a>. Seven of the top 10 play tennis \u2014 which comes as no surprise as tennis has long led the way in pay equity<\/a>.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udf93 Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals<\/strong> \u2014 which allowed amateur athletes to cash in on endorsement deals for the first time beginning in July 2021 \u2014 have made a big mark, helping to level the playing field in college athletics.<\/p>\n \u26bd\ufe0f Amid the money moves wins, <\/strong>female footballers are still fighting for equality. The USWNT\u2019s historic equal pay collective bargaining agreement with the U.S. Soccer Federation<\/a> last year was a huge victory for women in the sport, but progress can\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n SOURCE: TAMIR KALIFA\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n While we take today to celebrate, <\/strong>we know the work is far from over. Women still receive less than 5% of sports media coverage and account for only about 14% of sports reporters (a primary reason we do what we do!).<\/p>\n Also of concern are the attacks on the trans sports community<\/strong>, specifically trans girls and women. Eighteen states<\/a> have now passed laws barring transgender girls and women from competing in sports aligning with their gender identity.<\/p>\n\n
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\u27a1\ufe0f The road ahead<\/h3>\n
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