Olympics Nearing Gender Parity for the First Time in History

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Olympics Nearing Gender Parity for the First Time in History
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Women make up 48.8% of all Olympians at Tokyo2020 — more than in any Games in history.

in 1900, they made up 2.2 percent of Olympians. They were only permitted to compete in sports that were deemed “ladylike” enough—tennis, croquet, sailing, golf and equestrianism.

And during the opening ceremony, almost all countries had both a woman and a man lead their teams while holding their nation’s flags. Team USA has a particularly remarkable female showing this year: Out of the On Monday, August 2, New Zealander Laurel Hubbard became the first-ever openly transgender person to compete in the Olympics. Ahead of her competition in weightlifting, IOC medical and science director, Dr. Richard Budgett praised Hubbard’s “courage and tenacity” and said, “Everyone agrees that trans women are women.”

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