While the response to the gang rape of a teenage student in Pamplona in 2016 had elements of #MeToo, it didn't have the impact the debate over Luis Rubiales' actions in Australia has had this summer, experts tell Sky News.
"For me, the Rubiales affair brings to light the asymmetry between token institutional reform and the everyday reality for Spanish women. It shows how embedded those attitudes still are."
This comes in the form of workplace inequality, harassment and domestic violence, which she says are still"endemic". "But now women's football has garnered much more attention, they're paid more, they have celebrityhood on their side.
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