Whether it's the AFL, NRL, soccer or basketball, you can now find women in most major sports from the community level all the way up to the professional leagues.
At the elite level, the fight is often about pay and professionalism. But at grassroots, it can be far more basic: access to change rooms, equal resources, and something as simple as being taken seriously.
So what does it actually take to turn spaces built by men, for men, into places where women truly belong?
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