This summer is officially the summer of women in sport. It marks the first ever gender-equal Olympics, with athletes Daryll Neita and Laviai Nielsen on track to make team GB history. And yet mothers in sport are still being underestimated, and no one knows this better than decorated American athlete Allyson Felix.
She has won 11 Olympic titles, yet in 2018, when she gave birth to her daughter, her sponsor, Nike, decided to cut her salary by 70%, assuming that she would be less competitive and successful in the year following childbirth.
