Despite the progress made in women's sport, major challenges remain, particularly regarding equal pay, visibility and training conditions.
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00:00 As the Women's World Cup enters its second week, gender issues in sports persist.
00:08 Despite progress in recognition and visibility of female athletes, wage inequality remains
00:13 a major challenge.
00:14 We are in huge wage inequalities.
00:19 The average salary of a WNBA player was 110 times lower than that of a male colleague
00:27 in the NBA.
00:28 We have a small overview of the inequalities.
00:31 From the players that we surveyed, which were 362 players across six continents across the
00:38 world who played in the World Cup qualification pathways for the World Cup 2023, there were
00:45 huge disparities within the wages that players received to compete for their national team.
00:51 29% of players were not paid at all for this competition and that meant that 66% of players
01:00 had to take unpaid leave or vacation from another form of occupation in order to compete
01:05 in the World Cup qualifiers.
01:08 Inequalities in the world of sports are not limited to income.
01:11 Training conditions for female players also require improvements.
01:15 Female athletes say they've received hand-me-downs from the men's team.
01:18 We women often collect the hand-me-downs that the boys have left.
01:22 All the equipment that the boys have left, which is too big or too small, is what we
01:29 will get back.
01:30 So typically, I have friends who played in the World Cup qualifiers not so long ago and
01:35 who got back the size 43 socks that the boys had left.
01:43 Discrimination also manifests through disparities in media coverage given to women's sports.
02:12 And public discrimination starts in the private sphere with prejudice, intimidation and sexism.
02:18 I was a witness to the ambient misogyny that reigns in this environment.
02:23 We only win 3-0 at half-time.
02:26 The one who trains us is extremely unhappy with this score and ends up clearly threatening
02:33 us with rape.
02:34 And he looks at us like that, one by one, pointing at us with his finger and he says
02:40 "You want to play with me? I'm going to fuck you all one by one."
02:44 (whooshing)