Kathleen Palmer: One woman’s fight for female representation at the Olympic Games

Former YM editor, Kathleen Palmer, utilised her journalistic skills to anonymously rally against the patriarchal nature of post-war sailing

For the first time in its history, the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will achieve gender parity. For sailing, this means four women’s events, four men’s events and two mixed events – therefore equal chances for men and women to win medals. At the 1948 London Olympics it was a very different story. Female sailors were banned.

The writer of the...