Daily Cover: NFL Cheerleaders’ Fight to Be Heard

After years of low wages, poor working conditions and sexual harassment, change was needed. But now, as NFL teams re-make their cheerleading squads, the women themselves are often cut out of the conversation—and it’s the cheerleaders who are being told they’re the ones who need to change.

After years of low wages, poor working conditions and sexual harassment, change was needed. But now, as NFL teams re-make their cheerleading squads, the women themselves are often cut out of the conversation—and it’s the cheerleaders who are being told they’re the ones who need to change.

SI Daily Cover on the NFL's cheerleading problem
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