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Head coach Dawn Staley of the South Carolina Gamecocks during practice before the 2023 NCAA Women’s Final Four semifinal game at American Airlines Center on March 30, 2023 in Dallas. (Tom Pennington / Getty Images)

BY ELISA VAN KIRK | Kim Mulkey, Katie Meier, Lisa Bluder, Dawn Staley and Brenda Frese. While most people would recognize these names as five coaches that led their teams to the 2023 Women’s March Madness Elite Eight, these women are more than that. These female coaches are demonstrating the importance of having women in leadership roles in collegiate athletics. 

Fifty-one years after the passage of Title IX, there is no doubt that girls and women now participate in sports in droves, from high school to college since the act was passed in 1972. However, participation is often where the conversation starts and stops when Title IX is discussed. Very little attention is paid to coaches.  

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Janet Protasiewicz (left) and Daniel Kelly are competing in a state supreme court race that puts the future of abortion policy, voting rights and the state’s legislative maps on the ballot. (Courtesy of the Janet for Justice and Daniel Kelly campaigns)

BY DUSTIN BROWN | On April 4, Wisconsin will hold an election for a seat on its state supreme court, which has had a clear conservative majority since 2008. Two candidates—judicial conservative Daniel Kelly and progressive Janet Protasiewicz—have advanced out of a four-way primary and are vying to replace a retiring conservative justice. The election, which has already broken records for spending and primary turnout, represents liberals’ first chance in a decade to break the conservative lock.

Media accounts say Wisconsin’s high-profile supreme court election is primarily about two issues: abortion and gerrymandering. That’s true, but the race also tells a broader story about the influence state courts are wielding in the face of divided government and eroding federal rights. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is resolving issues that federal courts and the state’s political branches can’t (or won’t) tackle. Abortion access, electoral maps and executive powers all hang in the balance.

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BY MICHELLE MOULTON and MOITSE KEMELO MOATSHE |U.S. patriarchal authoritarianism is on the rise, and democracy is on the decline. But day after day, we stay vigilant in our goals to dismantle patriarchy at every turn. The fight is far from over. We are watching, and we refuse to go back. This is the War on Women Report.

This month: The FDA is set to review the application for the first over-the-counter birth control pill; World Athletics voted to ban all trans women from elite athletics; Republicans have introduced bills that would bring homicides charges for abortion; and more.

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