Uncertainty is not new to women's football and neither is inequity. "This [the resumption of the Frauen Bundesliga] is going to do huge things for women's football in Germany, but it's also going to do huge things for women's football in general," Barrett tells CNN Sport. If we want women's football to be taken seriously, we need to take it seriously." There's definitely a world, if you go by past behaviors, the most likely outcome is that women's football will be diminished by this crisis and women's football will be set back. "It should be an opportunity for women's sport to come out better, come out on some more equal footing, but now the reality is there's a massive challenge that women's sport might go backwards, might be left out from the table.

Source: CNN June 07, 2020 10:30 UTC