Rights of Passage
The Olympics Aren’t Yet Equal Between the Sexes, But They Want to Fix That in Rio
by Alanna Bennett | 4:15 pm, August 10th, 2012
In the Olympic games there are currently 30 more medals available to men than are to women. This Olympic games was a landmark one in that it is the first in history in which all 204 participating nations sent female athletes to compete, but there is still ground left to cover. Which is why we’re so glad that current shadow Olympics minister Tessa Jowell recently announced her intention to lead the campaign to make 2016 Rio “the first gender equal games” in history.
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