Is that you know what is going to happen next.
If the men had won the World Cup – either version – it would be front page news, lead item on every bulletin and, like after the 2005 Ashes, honours and sponsorship deals all round.
That same year, England’s women won their version of the Ashes, too. It made some early evening news bulletins and that was it. They’d waited almost 20 years longer than the men to regain them and what happened? Captain Claire Connor got a medal and they were graciously permitted to share a bus around town behind the men’s one. Everyone and everything else was ignored.
I just know that the same will happen again – only without the bus ride. So much for sex equality.
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That’s just so incredibly true, and you won’t just find it here, but in all facets of life. The World Cup victory is being treated as more of a one-off “Oh look, the women won, that’s quite nice” thing and the team is almost certain to fade from the public spotlight quickly in the coming weeks.
[...] at cricket with balls, there is unhappiness at the rather muted reaction to the England women’s world cup win [...]
It is a disgrace actually. Save for the power hitting and high speed, the level of the girls is as high if not higher than the men. Giles Clark’s comments on the same were actually condescending – as if he was congratulating a kid for tying his/her shoelaces for the first time.
Just a suggestion – why not have an inter gender exhibition match pitching the best of the women and wen cricketers. At least it will lead to some awareness.
Hopefully Jenny Gunn will get a medal from CA for prematurely calling her a chucker, tainting the WC and highlighting that CA will try and do anything to win tournaments
Its got nothing to do with sexual equality its to do with what people identify with. People identify with the England cricket team winning the ashes because it was all over the national press and TV all summer. The women’s ashes win was largely ignored because it was not covered in the press and national TV. Why not? Because, largely they are a bit rubbish. If you watch them play its a bit like watching my lad’s U15 team — and they don’t get on TV either.
However, if you look at a sport where women have success and produce quality performances (athletics for example), women have lots of TV exposure and honours (go on, name two current male athletes).
I think the way women’s tennis and golf have become so big, women’s cricket can become big as well but it will take some time.
First thing, women should start following women’s cricket and atleast go to the grounds to watch the matches, watch it on television etc. Once that happens, the advertisers will come rushing and once there is money, the governing bodies will become more serious and media will follow.
Just like there was a change in the advertising world 20 yrs back when people realized they should be marketing to women, once the women themselves start watching the sport, everyone will come automatically. Of course the men will go where the women are so any women’s sport has the potential to become quite big.
jrod, I’m sure a british woman winning wimbledon will get a lot more attention. It is just the pecking order – I even reckon a tennis female champion in britain will outshine the flintoffs and pietersens in popularity, This has got not much to do with sex