{"id":69649,"date":"2026-03-21T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/the-wnbas-historic-deal-teaches-girls-everywhere-to-advocate-for-themselves-etan-thomas\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:56:02","slug":"the-wnbas-historic-deal-teaches-girls-everywhere-to-advocate-for-themselves-etan-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/the-wnbas-historic-deal-teaches-girls-everywhere-to-advocate-for-themselves-etan-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"The WNBA\u2019s historic deal teaches girls everywhere to advocate for themselves | Etan Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark new CBA should be a moment of progress. Instead, the discourse around the negotiations revealed the same old attitudes \u2013 and my daughters recognized them instantly<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/12\/sign-up-for-wnba-30-a-limited-run-womens-basketball-newsletter?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=WNBA26&amp;utm_content=WNBAstandfirst&amp;utm_term=WNBAstandfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\"><strong>Sign up for WNBA 30: a limited run women\u2019s basketball newsletter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I interviewed Jemele Hill for my podcast The Rematch and asked for her reaction to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/18\/wnba-cba-explained-salaries-revenue-player-pay-deal\">WNBA\u2019s landmark new collective bargaining agreement<\/a>, a seven-year deal that includes a salary cap increase to $7m (up from $1.5m in 2025), maximum salaries approaching $1.4m, 20% revenue sharing, expanded rosters, charter flights and more.<\/p>\n<p>Hill didn\u2019t mince words.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/21\/wnba-pay-debate-sexism-collier-comment-daughters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark new CBA should be a moment of progress. Instead, the discourse around the negotiations revealed the same old attitudes \u2013 and my daughters recognized them instantly Sign up for WNBA 30: a limited run women\u2019s basketball newsletter I interviewed Jemele Hill for my podcast The Rematch and asked for her reaction to the &#8230; <a title=\"The WNBA\u2019s historic deal teaches girls everywhere to advocate for themselves | Etan Thomas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/the-wnbas-historic-deal-teaches-girls-everywhere-to-advocate-for-themselves-etan-thomas\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The WNBA\u2019s historic deal teaches girls everywhere to advocate for themselves | Etan Thomas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}