Fairness is still a way off but, compared with the widespread disdain and leering of yesteryear, progress has been immense
There were lots of things that frustrated me about being a little girl: not being allowed to wear trousers at school, being prevented from joining the cubs, the year my brothers all got penknives under the Christmas tree from my grandparents while I opened a ceramic Jeremy Fisher. But one of the biggest annoyances of all was that the fastest person in the world was never going to be a woman. That the furthest jump, the highest leap, the biggest lift, the longest throw, were always going to be performed by men.
People told me women’s sport was rubbish. Perhaps it was?
Written by Tanya Aldred
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/08/international-womens-day-is-a-time-to-recognise-how-far-they-have-come-in-sport under the title “International Women’s Day is a time to recognise how far equality has come”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
