The news last year that Harvard’s soccer and cross country teams produced sexually explicit “scout reports” that assessed the appearance and sex appeal of the respective women’s teams shows us that we have a long way to go in education surrounding sexism. The news went national in America late last year after the Harvard Crimson reported that members of Harvard’s 2012 men’s soccer team created lewd and degrading “scouting reports” of the women’s team. The reports judged the appearance of all the new freshers on the women’s soccer team that year, giving each a nickname often based on a perceived flaw in their appearance while … Continue reading Moving on from Harvard: Education Key to Combatting Sexism in Sport and Society