Equality in sports: women play at the World Cup – so what?!

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These days, if you visit our Blick office early in the morning, you will see football live on the big screen. When the Inky Grings team plays, everyone rejoices and suffers. Logical. Switzerland is playing.

On the tram, people watch football on their smartphones so they don’t miss anything. Logical. This is the World Cup.

A colleague’s daughter wants a Crnogorcevic T-shirt for her birthday. Logical. She is a fan of Switzerland.

So we finally achieved football equality? Of course not. Women earn a sandwich compared to men. For physiological reasons, their pace will never be as high as that of men, and Benzema is called Putellas by women.

But at least we got past the stage where we had to emphasize again and again that this women’s football – in the case of the Gopfertelli – is still not bad. Of course he is.

Meanwhile, in terms of journalism, we are also doing everything right: we no longer make beautiful stories like “Look how exotic, football player!”, but instead focus on the heroines, as well as on the performance. We inspect, classify, give marks after the game of the national team. If it has to be, bad ones too. It is important. Those who are spared are not taken seriously.

By the way, this also applies to women in management. Only when we can say without shame: “She does her job very badly!” We managed.

And vice versa, one should beware of hasty fatalism: recently at the World Championships, a woman shot a free kick well above the gate. The neo-fan who said four years ago that Megan Rapino was either a chocolate bar or a musical group immediately raised his finger and questioned the quality of women’s football. All in all. You can do it, but it doesn’t require much experience. But I am convinced that we can still do it.

Source: Blick