As participation levels rise, TV viewing figures increase and sponsorship income improves year on year, what’s left to achieve for women in football?
- Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Nottingham Trent University
Recent developments in pay parity show a promising future for women’s sport.
A women’s European Super League was an afterthought, evidence of the sport’s increasing swallowing up the men’s game.
During the break in competition caused by COVID-19, sportswomen lost wages, trained less and had poorer access to equipment than their male counterparts
Women’s sport makes up about 4% of all sports coverage. But during the lockdown, that has shrunk to almost nothing.
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