The women’s cycling she runs through a pack of runners who could be called rich mothers-to-be or poor mothers-to-be; cyclists who, in case of pregnancy, are backed by both the International Cycling Union (UCI) and its teams, and what they should think about before facing a maternityif they will be able to do it while they are runners and try to earn a living by pedaling.
the future rich mothers are the ones that compete in the so-called world-tour (the highest category of women’s cycling) and the poor are those who are enrolled in the so-called hierarchy continentalsecond-level squads where there is neither a minimum salary nor an obligation to have the workforce included in the social security regimes of each country, and they must only have the workforce with the obligatory insurance in case of an accident.
The winner of the Paris-Roubaix 2021
The future motherhood of the British runner, Lizzie Deignanthe winner of the first edition of the Paris-Roubaixdisputed a year ago, has once again put in the first scene that there are two clearly differentiated female platoons in relation to the working and social conditions of the runners.
Deignn, in 2018, she became a mother for the first time. Her pregnancy served for the UCI to start doing their homework and to think that runners should be protected in case of maternity. She is now expecting her second daughter in September and since February she has stopped competing. Automatically, the trekkingher team, announced that she was extending her contract for another year and the UCI recalled that riders assigned to teams that are part of the World Tour must receive the three months after delivery one hundred percent of their salary, which will be reduced to 50% five months later, in the event that the runners do not decide to return to the competition to care for the baby.
The situation in Movistar
In women’s cycling, as in men’s, there is only one World Tour team in Spain, and it is the Movistar, with templates of both sexes. “The 14 runners on our team are affiliated with the general social security regime. Therefore, they are covered by the same social guarantees as any other worker in Spain, including maternity leave, and in the case of high-risk pregnancies, prior leave”, affirms a spokesman for the Movistar management to questions from this newspaper .
This means that if one of the 14 Movistar runners announces a pregnancy will have the 16 weeks of leave for the birth of a child that any father or mother has in Spain, regardless of their sex.
Eight women’s continental teams
But in Spain there is eight teams of the category called Continental female. “These teams do not have the obligation to register their runners in the social security system & rdquor ;, confirms Jose Luis de Santos, president of the Association of Professional Runners (ACP), the cycling union to which some thirty Spanish cyclists are also signed up. Therefore, they are helpless in the event of becoming pregnant.
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In men’s cycling, on the other hand, the teams Professional Continentals, the second division, they are obliged, according to the leader of the cycling union, to have the runners registered with social security, the same as what happens in the Continental branch, the third category among men. In this case are the groups Kern Pharma, Caja Rural, Burgos-BH, Fundación Euskadi and Fundación Manuela, the latter in the third cycling division.
The awards
“The Spanish runners that are part of our association have a free quota & rdquor ;, adds Of saintssince the salaries they receive are still light years away from men’s cycling, although this season some races, such as the tour of flanders, has matched the prizes, and others have raised them considerably. Thus, for example, the first edition of the Women’s Tour, which takes place after the men’s Tour, will award the prizes that men receive during a week of competition. The men’s Tour occupies 21 days of racing for eight in the women’s category.