Author With County Ties Takes on 'Playing With the Boys'
Litchfield County Times
Nancy Barnes
December 27, 2007
Former New Milford, Connecticut resident Laura Pappano, who is currently a writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women, writes about the effect that sex segregation in sports has on women's social status in her new book, Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports, co-authored with Eileen McDonagh. "There's a lot of self-censorship," says Pappano. "That's a problem for our society when 52 percent of the population feels they don't belong on an equal playing field."
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