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The fight is not over In sports, gender equality is far from being achieved. We can be satisfied with their greatest visibility in recent years but girls and women across the sports world face a relative lack of opportunity, a
insufficient investment and the persistence of gender bias.
Certainly, the elimination in 2007 of the gap between the sums of money won by the players and players at the Roland-Garros tennis tournaments in Paris and Wimbledon in London represented a great leap forward. Unfortunately, this parity is not at all in most other sports where men's earnings exceed still largely those offered to women. The total amount of the last Cup women's soccer world was for example 15 million US dollars against $ 576 million for the Men's World Cup.
In other sports, inequalities persist, with men much more often status of professional players as women. And even when they access this status, discrimination continues, men's monthly incomes are much higher to those of women.
Another advance to be applauded is the more regular presence of women's sport on television. It went from 7% to 15% of all sports broadcasts between 2012 and 2014 and continues to climb. Even if this figure represents a marked improvement in media coverage of women's sport, it remains fairly low: in 2015, just before the World Cup in Canada, the French women's football team was ranked 3rd without the chains national have even planned to televise all the Blue matches. Difficult to imagine a such a lack of profile in the case of their male compatriots!
The main goals for the future would therefore be an increased participation rate of women in sporting activities, a higher profile and equal status. But don't not underestimate the importance of initiatives outside the field aimed at a more large occupation by women of key positions in sport. For At the moment, they still find it difficult to assert themselves as leaders or presidents of their sports organizations
Reread the text above to guide you in answering the following question.
a) The vast sums of money earned by some of the greatest athletes professionals, men and women, justifiable? Explain your opinion.