Equality League trains athletes to advocate for their rights to access, equality and safety.
Our Mission
EQL advances gender equality in sport by changing discriminatory policies and practices that obstruct access, equality and safety for women and girls.
Our Advocacy Campaigns
EQL seeks power, protection, and (equal) pay and prize money for athletes in America and around the world.
Our Athlete Advocacy Training
EQL’s core competency is training athletes to advocate. We cover campaign creation, athletes’ rights as human rights, storytelling, and coalition building.
Our Impact
EQL improves sport and its benefits for millions of athletes worldwide by tackling the hardest and worst gender inequities in sport.
Advocacy Campaigns
Safeguarding Afghan Athletes
We led a coalition to advocate for the evacuation and resettlement of Afghan women athletes who were at high risk for Taliban reprisals. With FIFA, we evacuated 18 national and provincial basketball players who were stranded in Albania for 1-1/2 years. They resettled in the USA in June 2023.
Empowering & Protecting Athletes
We’re supporting the Congress-appointed Commission on the State of Olympics and Paralympics to research and recommend reforms to the governing rules of the USOPC, its National Governing Bodies - including USA Gymnastics - and Youth Clubs.
Enforcing Title IX
We’re partnering with Champion Women to close the gender gaps in college scholarships, opportunities, benefits and treatment for American women athletes. That includes $1 billion in scholarships, $162 million in recruitment dollars and 200,000 fewer teams and player positions than college men receive.
Paying Women
We partnered on both the LILLY Ledbetter and the LFG films’ social impact campaigns and mobilizing the multi-sector signatories of our 2019 open letter to U.S. Soccer and FIFA Presidents calling for equal pay, prize money, investment and more.
