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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) recently awarded full-time professional contracts to 12 women players.<\/p>\n

However, the value of the contracts has not been revealed and the 12 contracts are not enough to make up a full rugby union team, let alone a squad.<\/p>\n

These contracts are still unusual and top sportswomen continue to face more funding issues than men at the same level.<\/p>\n

Contracts offered to top women athletes are often short-term, covering the weeks of a sporting competition, or part-time, and, until recently, lacking maternity leave.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s teams frequently face poor pitches, lower wages\/prize money, and inferior conditions compared to men.<\/p>\n

Sport has been (and largely still is) governed by male, hypermasculine former athletes.<\/p>\n

One theory arguesthat these managers of sport make decisions that benefit themselves and (white, heterosexual, middle\/upper-class) males. As a result, women\u2019s sport has, at many times, been misunderstood and treated poorly.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s sport is getting more backing, but this comes against a long history of discrimination.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Women\u2019s FA Cup Final took place 100 years after the Football Association banned women\u2019s football on Football League grounds. This ban fed into historic hostility towards women playing sport.<\/p>\n

That has not gone away completely. The International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA) stoked controversy with its views shortly after women\u2019s boxing was accepted as an Olympic sport.<\/p>\n

AIBA suggested that women boxers should wear skirts when they competed to help them stand out from the men\u2019s competitions.<\/p>\n

While 22-year-old Ema Klinec from Slovenia, the current World Champion, is one to watch for the women\u2019s ski jumping at the Winter Olympics this year, women were excluded from this sport for years.<\/p>\n

As recently as 2008, the International Olympic Committee cited the \u201ctechnical merit\u201d of women\u2019s ski jumping as justification for its exclusion.<\/p>\n

Another reason was also the misguided belief by the governing body that ski jumping would damage women\u2019s reproductive health. Following international pressure and unsuccessful court cases, it was finally accepted in 2011 and appeared for the first time at Sochi 2014.<\/p>\n

This type of view has heavily influenced the way women\u2019s sport is treated and its funding and resourcing.<\/p>\n

Just over 50 years ago, Billie Jean King and eight other professional tennis players launched their own tennis tour to ensure that they were paid and treated on par with men\u2019s tennis players.<\/p>\n

Yet it was not until 2006 that the last Grand Slam tennis tournament, Wimbledon, agreed to pay equal prize money to men and women. The men\u2019s World Number 1 tennis player, Novak Djokovic argued in 2016 that men should earn more than women players.<\/p>\n

Even when women\u2019s teams have successes, they are frequently paid significantly less than men.<\/p>\n

The US Women\u2019s national soccer team filed a wage discrimination act (and later a gender discrimination lawsuit) against the governing body of their sport. Despite winning World Cups and generating more income than the men\u2019s team, they were paid a quarter of what the men\u2019s team earned prior to their legal action.<\/p>\n

There are signs that change is coming. The Welsh national football association has recently pledged to introduce equal pay for its men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams by 2026.<\/p>\n

They have joined a growing number of national associations to have equal pay agreements for their men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams.<\/p>\n

In cricket, The Hundred was the first professional tournament that put women\u2019s and men\u2019s teams on an equal footing, with women\u2019s matches played on the same grounds as the men\u2019s. Attendances for the women\u2019s matches were higher than for previous tournaments.<\/p>\n

Increased attendance shows that when women\u2019s sport is marketed suitably, spectators see greater value in it and are more likely to attend.<\/p>\n

At the Winter Olympics, the inclusion of sports such as mixed team ski jumping and women\u2019s mono bob mean that there are not only more events for women but also greater opportunities for sponsorship. At the 2020 Tokyo Games, sponsorship of women athletes grew. Sponsors increasingly see value in backing women athletes.<\/p>\n

The FA and Professional Footballers\u2019 Association have finally agreed to include maternity and long-term sickness cover in the contract of women footballers. At the same time, the Women\u2019s World Cup and European Championship are likely to be recognised as<\/p>\n

two of the protected sports events made available to free-to-air broadcasters.<\/p>\n

Progress has been made in women\u2019s sport but until the attitudes of those running sport change, top sportswomen will continue to face more obstacles than men.<\/p>\n

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