Levelling the Playing Field

Women are vastly under-represented in sports journalism, but some female leaders are tackling the skewed gender balance and ingrained sexism

At age 12, Julie Scott was the only girl in a boys’ hockey team. There were no girls’ teams when she was growing up in the 1980s in Guelph, Ontario, but she was determined to play hockey just like her big brother. Buried under padding and sometimes using her brother’s old equipment, she proved she […]