A Celebration of Women's Sporting Success
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Over the last few weeks and months we have seen women make huge progress in the world of sport. It was just over a month ago that the jockey Rachael Blackmore made history by becoming the first female rider to win the Grand National in its 173 year history. Also last month Rebecca Welch became the first female referee to oversee an English Football League match in 134 years. And the former footballer Alex Scott has become the presenter of the BBC’s Football Focus, becoming the show's first permanent female host in its history.
It comes against a backdrop that has seen viewing figures for women’s football and rugby continue to grow despite a virtually invisible summer of competition last year. But a recent BBC Survey of elite sportswomen found that more than 60% earn less than £10,000 a year from their sport. So what still needs to be done when it comes to building on women’s success in sport and how can this upward momentum be maintained and include a variety of sports and not just football, cricket and rugby?
We have gathered some of the biggest influencers in the sporting world around a virtual round table. Zarah El-Kudcy a Trustee at the Women’s Sports Trust and the Head of Commercial Partnership Development at Formula 1, Emily Defroand a Great Britain and England Hockey player, Catherine Bond Muir the CEO of the W Series a motor racing championship for women, Kelly Simmons the FA’s Director of the Women’s Professional Game, Alison Kervin a writer and former Sports Editor for the Mail on Sunday (she was the first female sports editor on a national newspaper) and Dr Ali Bowes is a senior lecturer in the Sociology of Sport at Nottingham Trent University.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Beverley Purcell
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womons Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to Womons Hour where today we'll be celebrating the recent successes of women in the |
| 0:46.1 | sporting world and asking what can be done to maintain this momentum. Are we in a pivotal moment |
| 0:52.0 | where women will finally break through in sport and gain the same level of success and respect as men? |
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| 1:11.6 | us via our website now over the last few months and |
| 1:14.8 | weeks we've seen women make huge progress in the world of sport. It was just |
| 1:19.5 | over a month ago that jockey Rachel Blackmore made history by becoming the first female |
| 1:24.1 | rider to win the Grad National in its 173 year history. Also last month |
| 1:30.8 | Rebecca Welch became the first female referee to oversee an English football league |
| 1:35.0 | match in 134 years. |
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