Sports bars are a dime a dozen. However, whenever you step into one, it’s almost always showing men’s championships on TV.
Jenny Nguyen plans to change that. She says that women account for 40% of the total professional athletes, but 96% of athletes on TV are men. Nguyen, who herself plays basketball her whole life, and her group of sport-enthusiast girlfriends have noticed the imbalance for a long time. This is how the idea to establish a women’s sports bar came to being.
In April, Nguyen is officially opening The Sports Bra, Portland’s and probably the world’s first women-focused sports bar. Not only is the bar centering their programming around women’s sporting competitions, it is also put together with the same consciousness. Nguyen enlists as many women-owned companies as possible in building her dream joint. By doing this, she wants to empower women to reach for dreams they might think inaccessible to them.
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