AWSM Joins Jets

It is happening, football is changing.

Not the sport, but the players.

In September, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell promised Amy Moritz, president of the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM) that the AWSM would be there when the Jets begin to dialogue about female reporters in the locker room.

Ms. Moritz attended a meeting at the Jets' practice facility this week. We're quite sure the attendees were sensitive to gender and biological sex.

Although some might credit feminists for the rise in women in sports and athletic enterprises, a woman need not be a card carrying feminist to want fair treatment, equal treatment on the job. Most women in the workforce, including, we imagine, the women of the AWSM, don't start out wanting to change attitudes. They just want to do their jobs.

Sexual harassment hurts, is the point, and does make it hard to do the job. It hurts in a way that a sport injury (an elbow to the lip, ask President Obama about those) does not. We'll never stop the sports injuries, but verbal abuse? That players can do something about.

Meetings like these can only bode well for sportsmanship, won't hurt anyone's game.

Linda Freedman, PhD, LCSW, LMFT