The Game Changers

Game On: Chapter 7 - Equal Pay for Equal Play

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Episode notes

“Everyone thinks women should be thrilled when we get the crumbs and I want women to have the cake, the icing and the cherry on top too.” Billie Jean King, 2016

How will women’s sport ever thrive without equality in funding and investment? 

It’s totally unrealistic to expect women’s team sport to reach the level of men’s when players have never had access to the same funding, prize money, professional contracts or personal endorsement as the men. 

This chapter looks critically as the state of play for women’s professional sport and how things are finally changing.  

It explores the US National Team’s fight for equal pay and how prize money is impacting sports like cricket and football in the UK with The Hundred and the FA Cup.

Thank you to Sport England who support The Game Changers podcast through a National Lottery grant.

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Produced by Sam Walker, What Goes On Media

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