India, June 26 -- When it comes to bridging the gender pay gap worldwide, sports remains one of the final frontiers to be conquered. In India though - a country with one of the highest levels of wage disparity in the world - the conversation is a non-starter.
Take Indian cricket for example. Male Indian cricketers are among the richest players of the sport in the world, but female cricketers didn't even have contracts until a decade ago. In fact, the Women's Cricket Association of India was merged with the Board Of Cricket Control For India only in 2006, at the insistence of the International Cricket Council, and despite BCCI's reluctance.
When the women did get contracts, the pay was peanuts. In fact, before BCCI renewed players contract...