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Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2022 Longlisted
for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 In recent years,
the landscape for women's sport has finally begun to shift. We've
seen significant increases in investment, spectators and media
coverage; more women as professional athletes and taking
influential roles as board directors, editors, officials and CEOs.
Yet female athletes still don't get equal opportunities or funding.
In many sports, women receive less prize money, lower sponsorship
revenues and a tiny fraction of the media coverage. Drawing on her
own experiences, and interviews with high profile Olympic and
Paralympic champions, broadcasters, journalists, sports scientists,
CEOs, officials and sponsors, Sue Anstiss investigates why women
have been excluded from the world of sport for centuries - and why
we are now witnessing positive change as never before. Game On is a
celebration of the trailblazing women opening doors for others and
a manifesto for women's sport - a rallying cry to ensure the
progress we are currently seeing goes from strength to strength.
Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2022 Longlisted
for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 Sport has an
extraordinary, unique capacity to challenge and change society - to
bring joy and hope; to improve physical and mental health, reduce
loneliness and build self-esteem and happiness. It's also a
multi-billion-pound commercial industry that can transform lives,
businesses, nations and regions. Why has half the population been
deprived of access to something so culturally powerful? In recent
years, the landscape for women's sport has finally begun to shift.
We've seen significant increases in investment, spectators and
media coverage. More women as professional athletes and taking
influential roles as board directors, editors, officials and CEOs.
Yet female athletes still don't get equal opportunities or funding.
In many sports, women receive less prize money, lower sponsorship
revenues and a tiny fraction of the media coverage. Drawing on her
own experiences, and interviews with high profile Olympic and
Paralympic champions, broadcasters, journalists, sports scientists,
CEOs, officials and sponsors, Sue Anstiss investigates why women
have been excluded from the world of sport for centuries - and why
we are now witnessing positive change as never before. Game On is a
celebration of the trailblazing women opening doors for others and
a manifesto for women's sport - a rallying cry to ensure the
progress we are currently seeing goes from strength to strength.
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