Don’t worry hockey, Caroline Ouellette is not going anywhere. She's just shifting her focus to helping and mentoring others. A letter to her daughter/retirement announcement from the Canadian hockey player for CBC Sports, 25 Sept 2018.
"it was so much thêm than gold. It was validation for every woman that had worn the red, white and blue over the last 20 years." Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson of the USA Women's Hockey team on the fight for equality & GOLD. Players Trib, Feb '18.
USA's Women's Hockey Team wins a vàng medal in the 2018 Olympics just a năm after winning their battle to get, y'know, paid and treated like humans and stuff. bài viết bởi Bill Plaschke for the LA Times, 22 Feb 2018.
Even the teenage boys playing hockey for the US get 4x thêm than the women's team, who work 2-3 jobs while training. A petition aiming for 1,000 signatures to shove in USA Hockey's face. Don't know how effective it'll be, but it couldn't hurt.
"None of us wanted this ngày to come. But we feel we owe it to women players who came first in our sport; we owe it to ourselves, and we owe it to women in future generations." bài viết bởi Johnette Howard for ESPN, 15 March 2017.
Fundraiser for a documentary on the NWHL, the first women's hockey league in the US who actually pays its players. (It's about time!) Page includes wage gap and sports coverage charts, and cool perks if you're into this kind of thing!