‘I was being paid €30,000 and my male equivalent was on half a million-plus’
The TelegraphThe stark reality of sport’s gender pay gap is laid bare in the latest episode of the Telegraph Women’s Sport Podcast. “I can be brutally honest now I’m out of the sport, but I was being paid €30,000 and my male equivalent, if we look at performance only, would have been on half a million-plus,” she says. “But we’ve got these teams that genuinely cannot afford these minimum salaries and they’re going to be wiped out, which means young girls will not have a pathway, a genuine pathway, to get to the top of the sport. ‘Big brands are taking this leap because they see the big opportunity’ “It’s growing because these big brands are taking this leap because they see the big opportunity within the women’s space because of the broadcast that we’re now getting on TV.
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