All posts by Holly Thorpe
Ruapehu’s slippery slopes: the uncertain future of snow sports in a climate emergency
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. With New Zealand’s two major North Island ski fields in financial trouble, the combined impact of COVID-19 on national and international tourism and this year’s very poor snow season has hit hard. But this may be only a…
Lydia Ko’s ‘time of the month’ comment showed how far sportswomen have come – and how much still has to change
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Last weekend’s LPGA event in California will likely be remembered as much for what was said as the golf that was played. Asked about some on-course treatment she’d needed for back pain, world number three Lydia Ko replied…
The pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women is derailing decades of progress on gender equality
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. During the global COVID-19 pandemic, women have carried much of the unpaid emotional and domestic burden of caring for their families and communities, often simultaneously holding down paid jobs, many on reduced hours or salaries. Women have also…