Ginny Gilder: Charting A Course For Gender Equality In Sports Earlier this week, the WNBA announced that the league and the New York Liberty agreed to suspend consideration of Isiah Thomas? application for an ownership interest in the team. It is unclear if this move was indeed a mutual decision by both parties or if the WNBA Board of Governors was prepared to deny the application; thus the halt mostly allowed Thomas, James Dolan and the Liberty to temporarily save face. But we do know that Ginny Gilder ? co-owner of the Seattle Storm and Olympic silver medalist in rowing ? was a member of the Board of Governors? vetting committee. She is an outspoken proponent of equal opportunities and treatment of women in sports and believes both male and female athletes ?deserve the same chance to reach for greatness.? Standing up for what she believes in did not come naturally to Gilder. Rather, it was her experience of joining the 1975 women?s crew team at Yale University that opened Gilder?s eyes to blatant gender discrimination in sports.
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