parity

“The parity of our game,” Close said, “is just getting better.”

According to a McKinsey & Company study, Black Americans are currently one to three centuries away from achieving employment and economic parity with their white counterparts without targeted interventions.

While MLS and its Apple broadcast partners were deeply invested in Lionel Messi leading Inter Miami to the MLS Cup, parity has again leveled the field.

But off the bike women have fought in recent years to achieve parity with the men's side of the sport when it comes to sponsorship deals, salaries and media exposure.

In the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Gender Gap Index, which measures gender parity across economic opportunities, education, health and political leadership in 146 countries, South Korea is ranked 105th.