{"id":61615,"date":"2019-10-25T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=61615"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:41","slug":"a-union-of-womens-hockey-players-looking-for-a-league-of-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/10\/a-union-of-womens-hockey-players-looking-for-a-league-of-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"STEVENS, DONNELLY and BLACK: A union of women\u2019s hockey players looking for a league of its own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Stevens, Associate Professor, Sport Management and Director, Centre for Sport Capacity, Brock University;\u00a0Michele K. Donnelly, Assistant Professor, Department of Sport Management, Brock University; and\u00a0Simon Black, Assistant Professor of Labour Studies, Brock University, co-wrote\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-union-of-womens-hockey-players-looking-for-a-league-of-its-own-125481?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2025%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2025%202019+CID_94f3c15c3b7547cbdc6a1993e446e413&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=A%20union%20of%20womens%20hockey%20players%20looking%20for%20a%20league%20of%20its%20own\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in <em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> about a union of women&#8217;s hockey players looking for a league of its own.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Dream Gap Tour of elite hockey players put the women\u2019s game back in the news this fall. Some of the world\u2019s best players \u2014 including more than 35 Olympians \u2014 played in the four-team exhibition tournament that travelled to Toronto, Chicago and Hudson, N.H.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A few months earlier, professional women\u2019s hockey seemed to be in crisis. The six-team Canadian Women\u2019s Hockey League (CWHL) had folded in May due in part to financial issues, leaving one professional women\u2019s hockey league in North America \u2014 the U.S.-based National Women\u2019s Hockey League (NWHL). Later that month, more than 200 players launched a boycott of that league over demands for better pay and working conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ultimately, the upheaval led to the creation of the Dream Gap Tour and the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey Players\u2019 Association (PWHPA).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/a-union-of-womens-hockey-players-looking-for-a-league-of-its-own-125481?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2025%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2025%202019+CID_94f3c15c3b7547cbdc6a1993e446e413&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=A%20union%20of%20womens%20hockey%20players%20looking%20for%20a%20league%20of%20its%20own\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Stevens, Associate Professor, Sport Management and Director, Centre for Sport Capacity, Brock University;\u00a0Michele K. Donnelly, Assistant Professor, Department of Sport Management, Brock University; and\u00a0Simon Black, Assistant Professor of Labour Studies, Brock University, co-wrote\u00a0a piece recently published in The Conversation about a union of women&#8217;s hockey players looking for a league of its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38,58],"tags":[299,3696,8387,3856,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61618,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61615\/revisions\/61618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}