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Heading into what the International Olympic Committee has billed as the Gender Equity Games, Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold’s fight just to qualify for the Summer Olympics next month has served notice of how far we still need to go to achieve actual gender equity in the world. In 2017, Bujold, then ranked 8th in the world, took some time away from the sport to start a family. After an absence of 11 months, she returned to the ring and made the Canadian boxing team. However, when the 2020 Olympic qualifying tournament was cancelled due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, the IOC determined that boxers would qualify based on their results in three tournaments that Bujold, one of the best-ever Canadian boxers, missed because of her pregnancy and postpartum. The IOC denied her appeal to have her Olympic qualification be based on her pre-pregnancy rankings. She now awaits a decision from the international sports world’s top court. Joining me to discuss the impact of these decisions on mothers and mothers-to-be in the world workforce were Miriam Williams and Tara Elwell Henning, the co-founders of Superkin, a lifestyle brand for ambitious parents. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jake-williams5/message