It's a battle that has been raging for too long - and an issue where football is among the industries still some way from catching up.
But for pioneering Lewes FC, the gender pay gap is a problem they've already been tackling head on for years.
The East Sussex club bucked the trend back in 2017 with their groundbreaking initiative, EqualityFC, which saw them pledge and commit to running a football club led on equal pay, budgets and resources for its male and female players. Six years on, they remain the only club in world football to do so.
