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Tilted playground: Cynthia Mumbo and World Cup winner Brandi Chastain discuss women in sports

Fans hold a women's rights and equal pay sign up during the USA Victory Tour match between the United States of America and the Republic of Ireland on August 3, 2019. [Photo: Getty Images]

It’s not rocket science to know that women are disadvantaged when it comes to the sports industry unless you have been living under a rock. It is a man’s world!

Women athletes worldwide are not highlighted unless they win big. Some people are in the school of thought that says women’s bodies aren’t built for sports, or that they’re not so much into sports anyway.

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