Podcast #208: Fair Play for Female Athletes—Then and Now

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27 Feb 2023 · 1 min read

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to former U.S. Olympic team rower Mary O’Connor about her 1970s-era fight against sports sexism—and today’s battle to keep male bodies out of women’s rowing.

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