The Paris Olympics celebrated the gender-equal games. The picture isn’t so rosy for women Paralympians
- Written by Georgia Munro-Cook, Research Fellow in Sport and Disability, Griffith University
Much has been written about the success of women athletes at the 2024 Paris games, dubbed the first gender-equal Olympics with equal numbers of men and women competing.
However, the situation for the Paralympic games is much less promising.
Just 42% of athlete spots at the Paralympics will go to women (equal to the Tokyo games).
At the non-elite...
