Edukator – Reformed Troll
Because the role is only open to women is the obvious answer, while the better roles go to men.
We’re talking about 2 separate things here though, conflating them does nothing for the question.
Are women discriminated against in organised sport? IMO, not particularly, it’s just a fact that their market is much much much smaller. It’s about level of performance and ability to attract an audience. I don’t know about cycling, but a while back I looked at women’s pay in relation to football, with regard their market, and what I’d perceive as their abilty, and tbh, it came out as pretty much on a par with the men. Yes they earn much less, but we don’t live in a socialist society, we live in a market society. and the womens market is equivalent to about the English 5/6 tier level(I can’t remember exactly), but in terms of audience, ability and reward it’s much the same.
To the other question about having women at the men’s event. Personally I think it’s completely unrelated to the success of women’s sport. It may be demeaning is some peoples eyes, but they aren’t forced to do it. It’s a job, personally I don’t see much wrong with the actual job. YMMV.