Women hockey players fight for their own viable pro league
By Bloomberg
09 October 2019 |
2:21 pm
In this 'Bloomberg Equality' report, Kendall Coyne Schofield, the U.S. Women's Olympic Ice Hockey team captain, talks about the need for women to have an economically viable professional league of their own. She talks to Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu.
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