Women in hockey have been facing public backlash since the birth of the game in the late 1800s. But despite all the pushback, we’ve never stopped playing.  The earliest records of women “hockeyists” on file are photographs from the 1880s, which show both men and women playing the game at skating parties hosted by Lord…

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Women’s sports have come a long way since the early 1960s, when I first donned a pair of skates. But we’ve got a long way to skate before we eliminate gender discrimination. Let’s start off with pay inequality. In many ways, women’s sports are a small cultural microcosm that reflect the macrocosm of our society…

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I began playing hockey in 1969. I was 15 years old. I was a girl.           Women have never had it easy in the sports world, myself included. We’ve been deprived of financial equality, peppered with insults, even legally mandated out of teams, and all on the basis of a single X chromosome. Our so-called “limitations” have been…

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Olympic superstar Hilary Knight talks about what it takes for young girls to make it in the sport. Original Source: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2340801976234761

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Interview of high performance female athletes reveals that many stereotypes are still associated with women in sport in 2019. Original Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKi7AmoNQqo

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Interview of Rhonda’s fellow teammates during the Kingston Red Barons 50th Anniversary Reunion, featuring video footage of the women’s game from the 1970s. Original Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/4620772/kingsto n-red-barons-womens-hockey/

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