Stand Up and Shout Out: Women's Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports

by Joan Steidinger

Overview

Today, women have greater opportunities to participate in sport than ever before, particularly due to the passage of Title IX in 1972. Yet, despite all this growth, women still struggle to hold leadership positions, become coaches of both girls and boys teams, receive equal pay, and get even adequate coverage in the media.

In Stand Up and Shout Out: Women's Fight for Equality in Sports, Joan Steidinger explores the three crucial areas in sport that remain huge concerns for women: leadership, money, and media. Steidinger looks at the number of ways in which women experience vast inequalities by examining topics such as the politics of sport, sexual assault, the #MeToo movement, pay equity, women in coaching positions, and the experiences of women of color and LGBTQ athletes. Interviews with leading authorities in the field and prominent female athletes are interwoven throughout to add both expert and personal perspectives to the conversation.

Stand Up and Shout Out does more than justinform readers about these important issues; its purpose is to create enlightened discussions around the unequal treatment of women and present readers with “action steps” so we can all become active contributors toward improving this situation. This is an ideal time to fight for women’s equality in sport, as it draws attention to the growing need for advocacy for girls and women around the world in all areas of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538125977
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/11/2020
Pages:	232
Sales rank:	448,623
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Joan Steidinger is a licensed clinical and sports psychologist. She is designated as a Certified Mental Performance Consultant by the Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) and is on the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) Registry of Sports Psychology. Dr. Steidinger has worked with sport psychology clients for twenty-seven years, including with pro and amateur athletes. Dr. Steidinger’s first book about female athletes, Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete (2014), won five literary awards. Dr. Steidinger lives in Mill Valley, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Leading the Charge
Chapter 2: Show Us the Money: Striving for Pay and Funding Equity
Chapter 3: Honoring Our Women Athletes: Where’s the Media Coverage?
Chapter 4: The Politics of Women’s Sport: Becoming an Active Part of the Sports Network
Chapter 5: Speaking Up and Promoting Women Coaches
Chapter 6: #MeToo Movement in Sports: Speaking up about Sexual Assault and Abuse
Chapter 7: Double Standards: Prejudice and Unequal Treatment of Women of Color Under Title IX
Chapter 8: The LGTBQ Community: Lesbian and Transgender Athletes
Chapter 9: A Global Challenge: International Women in Sport
Chapter 10: Time’s Up: Primary Concerns and Action Steps
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

02/10/2020

Sports psychologist Steidinger (Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete) attempts to provide a useful introduction to the challenges women athletes still face but falters in this poorly organized volume. Steidinger presents anecdotes of disrespect towards women, such as a star NFL player’s demeaning comments to a female journalist (Steidinger lists many such incidents), along with statistics on the underrepresentation of women coaches, neither of which provide new information or arguments. The action steps at the end of each chapter are often superficial (“Teach girls to speak up and shout out for what they believe in”; LGBTQ athletes are encouraged to “Be proud of who you are!”). And having praised some male athletes for their sensitivity to the issue, Steidinger argues that those same athletes should be engaged “in endorsing the value of women’s sports,” which they are already doing. Steidinger is a passionate advocate for her cause, but even those in her camp will come away unenlightened and without a clear path forward. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

.. .lifelong athlete and sports psychologist Steidinger acknowledges the numerous positive changes in women’ and girls’ sports since the groundbreaking 1972 passage of Title IX. The focus of this book, however, is the need to address three areas that continue to block progress today: leadership (lack of women in decision-making roles), money (disparity in prize money and salaries), and media coverage (downright abysmal). Topics include the #MeToo movement plus the unequal treatment of women of color in sports and issues specific to the LGBTQ community. Each chapter concludes with a list of action steps that range from mentoring young female athletes to working to "understand and respect the cultural issues of women of color rather than criticize them.”. .. this serves as a timely resource to those interested in mobilizing to fight gender and racial discrimination in sports.

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I am an African American woman who has had over 40 years of experiences in the area of women in sport from non profit, elementary school to the Olympic level. Joan Steidinger’s book Stand Up and Shout Out addresses issues around equal pay, equal rights, and equal opportunities in women sports that I have encountered all of my life. This book is a must read for everyone.

Alpha Alexander

Title IX was passed in 1972, ushering an era of equal opportunity in the United States. Although Title IX expanded opportunities for girls and women, nearly 50 years later we still have far to go. In this wonderful book, Joan Steidinger details all the areas where we still don't see equality. This book is a wake up call for anyone who thinks that we are close to gender equality in sports.

David Berri

Dr. Steidinger does a great job highlighting some of the prevalent experiences of women of color in her most recent book Stand Up and Shout Out. While it's impossible to capture every construct influencing the many unique and diverse experiences of women of color given the inherent nature of diversity of background, Stand Up and Shout Out helps to further the much needed conversation surrounding status, identity, and pursuit of change in the context of sport.

Angel Brutus

. . .lifelong athlete and sports psychologist Steidinger acknowledges the numerous positive changes in women’ and girls’ sports since the groundbreaking 1972 passage of Title IX. The focus of this book, however, is the need to address three areas that continue to block progress today: leadership (lack of women in decision-making roles), money (disparity in prize money and salaries), and media coverage (downright abysmal). Topics include the #MeToo movement plus the unequal treatment of women of color in sports and issues specific to the LGBTQ community. Each chapter concludes with a list of action steps that range from mentoring young female athletes to working to "understand and respect the cultural issues of women of color rather than criticize them.” . . . this serves as a timely resource to those interested in mobilizing to fight gender and racial discrimination in sports.

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