knee injuries they are declared unfit and sent home and no one is willing to help with their treatment this shows the inherent bias against our women players he says in india where most sportspersons come from notsowelloff families the biggest incentive other than the sport the medals and recognition is a government job that enables them to support themselves through their sporting careers and long after that a womens wrestling team was sent to an international event for the first time in 1997 since then women wrestlers have been doing extremely well even today there is no provision for any government job in any department for them says monica one of the coaches for the wrestlers lesser prize money is just one more disgrace that women players live with the women champions get about rs 40000 while the men will get paid rs 50000 or even rs 60000 why should this be the case we do the same work says mouma das an international table tennis player her views are echoed by poulomi das and madhuri patkar who are also international table tennis players poulomi rues the lack of individual sponsorship in the game but adds that she is grateful to her employer bharat petroleum for its support however champion weightlifter l monica devi says that the government does not discriminate i got rs 5 lakh from the government when i won the gold same as the men there was no difference she says incidentally even in international sport there are several instances of discrimination in prize money it was only in 2007 that wimbledon succumbed to years of public pressure finally deciding to award women the same prize money as their male counterparts all other tennis grand slams already offered equal prize money in another instance of open discrimination closer home the entire team of men wrestlers is being sponsored by the sahara and mittal groups while just two women wrestlers have managed to get sponsored by the two groups just a month back that too after much persuasion the federations are dominated by men they have little interest or regard for the sportswomen so there is no effort on their part to seek sponsorship or more funds for the women said an official at the institute to add insult to injury are the cases of sexual harassment that surface every now and then in the sports world almost every sportswoman at the patiala institute expressed shock over the sexual harassment case in hockey that has hit the headlines it was the only topic of conversation the day the news broke we were glad the issue got so much attention and that immediate action was taken there should be even more stringent punishment for such offences say the women in the patiala institute who dont want to be identified they discuss whether having more women coaches would help to stem such scandals and conclude that it would help but might not be the solution to this problem adding