02/16/2024 11:11am. Updated on 02/16/2024 11:12am.
Rafael Nadal He returned to the center of the scene because, in the middle of an interview, he was consulted about the gender pay gap, made his position clear and ignited a strong debate on social networks.
In this opportunity, The interviewer asked the athlete about the recent victory of the Spanish women’s soccer team in the World Cup. y He asked him if, for him, women should earn the same as men. Likewise, he confessed to her that he felt uncomfortable every time he was consulted on these issues publicly.
Faced with this situation, the response of the best tennis player in history on clay courts did not take long to arrive, and far from increasing the rumors of annoyance, he responded: ”Not at all. The thing is that I am not a hypocrite and I am not going to say things that are easy and I do not think“.
In turn, the host of La Sexta replied and consulted him about the investment. “The same as with men, opportunities, the same; salaries, the same? No. So that?“Nadal retorted in dialogue with Ana Pastor.
The hand in hand between Rafa Nadal and the Spanish journalist Ana Pastor
Nadal’s voice in the debate on feminism
As the minutes passed, the man born in Manacor took control of the note and it was he who asked the interviewer about the topic. “If you ask me if I am a feminist, tell me what it means: if it means that you have the same opportunities, I am a feminist“said the tennis player.
Following the same line, he retorted: “I have a sister, a mother, you know that that term (feminism) is taken to extremes that… (..) in this conversation we talk about logical and normal things, about equality. And equality does not reside for me in giving awayequality lies in the fact that If Serena Williams earns more than me, I want her to earn more than me” Nadal argued, alluding to the production of money.
“Being a man is not more important than being a woman”
During his participation in the Atresmedia program, Nadal expressed his discontent with the sports industry, observing that the same opportunities and facilities are not provided to men and women, which he finds unacceptable. “The problem for me is the discussion, how a man being a man is more important than being a woman.. Of course, from the public sector we must give the same opportunity in infrastructures, beginnings, sponsors,’ he highlighted.
And he closed: ”But if you tell me that the 50th in the world has to earn the same as Djokovic, it is not like that, because in the end we have to say that everyone has to earn the same by decree. “That’s another debate we can have.”
2024-02-16 14:11:12
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