International Equal Pay Day, on September 18, highlights gender inequalities across employment sectors. At a glance, women's sport seems to be accelerating towards equal pay at a quicker rate than ever before. "Sport does rank rather badly against all sorts of other sectors when it comes to equal pay and conditions," Lombe Mwambwa, the interim CEO of the Global Observatory for Gender Equality and Sport, told DW. Equal pay in football- just a crazy dream? But a more existential threat to women's sport comes from the lurch of many countries, particularly the USA, to the political right.