Gilder is a co-owner of the Seattle Storm, a professional women's basketball team in the WNBA.

However, there was no locker room available for the women's crew team, so they had to wait on the bus after practice while the men showered before they could return to campus.

[5] In 1976, she was part of a protest in which nineteen members of the Yale women's crew wrote "TITLE IX" on their bodies and went into athletic director Joni Barnett's office naked, and then rower Chris Ernst read a statement about the way they were being treated.

[10] She was a member of the American women's quadruple sculls team that won the silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

[11] She is the author of Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX which was released April 14, 2015 by Beacon Press.