Women in sport

Everything you need to know about the eSport phenomenon. In Australia it is now a $1.2 billion industry and that its reaches 250 million viewers globally.

“The AFL Women’s grand final has proven beyond a doubt that women’s sport has a strong and exciting future in this country.”

Australian women in cricket get a big payrise after Cricket Australia tables proposal which will deliver an immediate pay increase of 125% for females.

The pay gap in AFL means women are effectively paying to play and the success of the NAB AFLW hopefully means that will change.

In her book Breaking the Mould, journalist Angela Pippos writes about the time a well known man exposed himself to her and explains why she said nothing.

Cathy Freeman, Michelle Payne, Moana Hope, Turia Pitt and Lee Lin Chin have joined with the AFL to celebrate the historic first season of the NAB AFL Women’s competition in a powerful advertising campaign launched yesterday.

Shortly after Australia won the netball world championship in Singapore in 2011 I was discussing the win with one of the sport’s biggest sponsors.

It’s not every day that women’s sports makes the front page of any newspaper, let alone a national broadsheet like The Australian.

If you flipped through the papers last weekend, you probably noticed it.