Equal pay and sport, from Oslo to Wimbledon how many fights for gender equality

Equal pay: is the contemporary name of the '

' of sport that 50 years ago gave birth to the tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Rings.

In the United States

and the dispute is also heated in the rest of the world.

Soccer made in the USA proudly announces today that it has signed a historic agreement for

- in the national team, of course, because the "sacred" law of the transfer market applies to clubs -, but beyond pride in the stars and stripes there is already a nation that has adjusted wage equalization to bridge the 'gender gap', and that is Norway.

But from tennis to professional football, the struggle of women to be treated on the same level as their male colleagues is long and hard, and

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"It is absurd to ask that footballers earn like footballers: when the movement makes the same income, it will be like that", said a few years ago Frank De Boer, formerly of Ajax Inter and Holland.

But that moment came in US football, on the road opened in 2017 by Oslo.

Even earlier

important as regards the Grand Slams, even if the disparity especially among the top players remains: sponsors and tournaments around the world still make disparity.

The first to introduce the rule was the US Open in 1973, the last the Wimbledon tournament in 2007, and it was the fall of a real taboo, after several tennis players, including McEnroe, had asked the colleagues "to play the best of five sets instead of three if they want equal prize pools."

But not all that glitters is gold:

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Around the professional circuit, it is estimated that the gender pay gap does exist and that at the end of the day female tennis players earn 80 cents against every dollar of their colleagues.

Of course, if we talk about absolute earnings,

, and no one can impose equal treatment on sponsors: in the annual Forbes ranking of the highest paid sportsmen, Messi is back to dominate with 130 million dollars, the first woman it's Naomi Osaka, 19 / a at 59 million, and Serena Williams is the only one to keep her company among the top 50, for the rest all men.

In football, where 90 minutes are played on the same pitch whether they are players or female players, the motivation has traditionally been linked to the difference in investments of the sponsors, TV in the head: the real question, however, is what the future holds, while the data after the World Cup women's football matches in 2019 show exponential growth.

football, and there is already a debate on whether there are coverage for the sustainability of clubs: there is still a long way to go.

One step was taken by the Italian federugby, which in recent weeks has ensured a salary for 24 players of the national team to be able to prepare themselves as best as possible.

All this while Istat data certify, for example, that for 10 years now

, with percentages ranging between 52 and 54%.

And according to a document from the European Institute for Gender Equality (Eige), it is essential that sports organizations improve gender balance in executive boards and committees, as well as in management and technical staff.

The real gender gap arises there.

States are also called upon to do their part.

The target?

Eliminate rules and regulations that hinder women's sports careers.