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The integration of the men’s and women’s tournaments only highlight how differently competitors were treated. The total prize money for the men’s event it’s up to 16 times the amount for the women’s tournament, as the case of last cricket World Twenty20 competitions. The origins of this difference lie 150 years ago in the birth of modern sport. According to Tony Collins, author of Sport in Capitalist Society, Victorian society viewed sport as “inseparable from the philosophy of Muscular Christianity, which defined itself against femininity and ‘softness’”. Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympic Games in 1896, described women’s […]