Don’t dismiss ‘player power’. It’s driving change in women’s sport

It’s Sunday morning and English actress Emma Thompson has just been on the radio with Miriam O’Callaghan. She noted that things are better for women in society and we need to be appreciative of the change that has and is happening. At the same time, she remarked that we have to keep pushing, especially when opportunities arise to do so.

In sport, there is no denying the landscape is getting better. In terms of inclusion and equality, things are only going in one direction. The Women’s World Cup is in full flow and generally seems to be a really good news story for sport, evident in match attendances, viewership figures and column inches but also through the day-to-day emergence of interesting content around players and teams. There’s a lot happening off the field too and it is clear that this event, the pinnacle of the game, is being used as a forum for bigger issues.