Stories that LEAD
What we are learning, including the parts that did not work.
A young foundation, working in public. Notes on Idaho scholar-athletes, on getting girls into sport and keeping them there, and on the things we got wrong the first time.
Looking for the individual stories instead? IX Stories is the collection of first-person accounts — what stood in the way, what we funded, and what happened next, in their words rather than ours.
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94% of Female C-Suite Leaders Played Sports. Here's What That Number Really Means.
It is the most-quoted statistic in women's sport. It is also eleven years old, drawn from 400 self-selected executives, and it does not prove what people use it to prove.
Girls leave sport twice as fast as boys. Nobody has measured it in Idaho.
Two national organizations disagree by almost a factor of two on the most important number in the field. Neither has ever looked at this state.