The gender gap in sport

Italy is one of the slowest developing countries of the European Union, despite the progress made in recent years. There are still very few women with leadership roles in Italian and European sport; yet the United States is a completely different situation. A cultural issue rather than a numerical one that also involves the role of the media and the issue of diversity. But where culture has not reached capitalism, women’s sport in the world is growing constantly and this economic growth, according to various studies, could be seen to represent the precursor of gender equality

The gender gap in sport is an unequivocal fact. A difference that brings about an arrested development in culture and sport. Here is an example, Antonella Granata, was elected president of the FIGS, the Italian Squash Federation, last spring; the first woman to hold the highest federal office in Italy. A result achieved only in 2021, while the world was questioning gender equality, which according to sector studies, in the work place, will only be achieved in 2171 rather than in 2120, a shift that would be attributed to the two years of pandemic, relegating women to care jobs rather than progressing within the professional sector; it is as absurd as it is unacceptable. Returning to the question of sport, we cannot even take comfort from European data, especially EU data and there are few countries in the world where female sports…