TheFemaleCategory

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Read interviews, studies, and essays from those who support sex-segregated women's sports.

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About Sarah Barker

I've been a journalist for forty years, a runner and a woman for longer than that, and am increasingly seeing the need to be actively feminist. Women's sports is where that happens for me, and why I established The Female Category.

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