‘Are women grateful to be here or do women kick ass?’ #Sportskongres2020

#sportskongres2020 is a congress that is rated among the best sports medicine congresses in the world. A congress that in the past has failed to live up to Danish gender equality goals, but now recognises the value of gender equality and strives to take it one step further—pay attention to women and let them kick ass. ‘Are women grateful to be here or do women kick ass’ was the question Abby Wambach, former US soccer national team captain, posed in her graduation speech at the Barnard College in 2018. Wambach made the important point that women, herself included, are often brought up to be grateful, nice girls, staying on the career path and not mouthing off. Abby nails it; gender equality is a complex matter that draws attention to children’s upbringing and the perception of how women ought to behave. The quest for gender equality does not start nor end with equal opportunity. As pointed out by Bekker et al 1 in a recent editorial. ‘The question, then, is far from how we can merely get more women to participate, but rather ‘how can we make ourselves …