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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Title IX: WNBA owner among women athletes running businesses

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Ginny Gilder wasn’t well versed on what Title IX meant until she was a freshman at Yale, competing for the rowing team and taking part in one of the most famous protests surrounding the law.

The co-owner of the WNBA's Seattle Storm was right in the middle of the “Yale Strip-In” in 1976 to protest inequities in the treatment of men and women rowers at the school.

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