If we have children, we risk pay cuts from our sponsors during pregnancy and afterward. It's one example of a sports industry where the rules are still mostly made for and by men.
Recorded Opinion piece, The New York Times, 22 May 2019 source
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Allyson Felix
United States sprinter, 2003–2022
United States · b. 1985
Won eleven Olympic medals, seven of them gold, across five Games between 2004 and 2021. In May 2019 she published an opinion piece describing her contract negotiations with Nike over maternity protections; Nike changed its policy for sponsored athletes later that month.
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