A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem | WRI Panel

This virtual event took place on Friday February 26th, 2021

This year the Buffalo Bills played for the AFC conference championship - a team with a storied history of multiple Super Bowl appearances and well compensated Hall of Fame players. Meanwhile, for decades, its cheerleaders and those of other NFL teams have been subject to costly and abusive working conditions and have received less compensation than the team mascots. The panel will discuss issues addressed in the documentary around labor protections for women, fair-pay, wage theft, sub-minimum wage, the implications of part-time workers organizing, legal & cultural definitions of what constitutes “work,” and the ways gender is embedded in those definitions/gendered labor, to name just a few.

Featuring:
Yu Gu, Director/Producer/ Cinematographer, A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem

Amanda Ross, Former NFL Cheerleader with the Baltimore Ravens

Mhkeeba Pate, Former NFL Cheerleader for the Seattle Seahawks

Sean Cooney, Class Counsel to the former Buffalo Jills Plaintiffs

Moderators:
Mark Gaston Pearce, Visiting Professor and Executive Director, Georgetown Law’s Workers’ Rights Institute

Jamillah Bowman Williams, Professor and Workers’ Rights Institute Faculty Director, Georgetown Law