Achieving historic success. What helps Vorskla women’s football team to remain champions
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Match between women's soccer teams, season 2024-2025. Photo by: football team 'Vorskla'
The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris made history as the first gender-equal Games, with more than 5,000 women participating. Women and men competed in 28 out of 32 sports.
Despite the progress in women’s sports in recent years, gender disparities remain, particularly regarding equal pay, visibility, and training conditions.
'The Ukrainian media began to pay more attention to women's football when Kyiv hosted the women's Champions League final alongside the men's final of the 2018 Champions League. And later, when the Ukrainian women's football team reached the round of 16 in the Champions League,' says Julia Broussard, Deputy UN Women Representative in Ukraine.
Read more about gender equality in sports and the remarkable Poltava women’s football team, Vorskla, in the article by Ukrainska Pravda
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