Stephanie McMahon has called for equal representation between men and women on WWE television.
The Chief Brand officer made the comments during an interview with Charlotte Wilder from Fox Sports, noting the company's past and future efforts to achieving total parity between the divisions.
She said, "I don't want it to be a big deal anymore when our women are the main event. I think that they just should be equally alongside the men. There needs to be parity on the roster, I'd love to see an equal number of men and women equally represented. Of course, at times that would ebb and flow, but I think that would be very important. And just more storylines, more women, more storylines. I think that we've done a good job - I really do - but I think we can do even better.
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She continued: "The women's evolution happened in our business [once] we started recruiting and training athletes," Stephanie said. "Triple H started recruiting elite female as well as male athletes and training the women the same as the men, giving them the same match time, the same opportunity, the same number of reps. And like anything else, the more reps you have, the better you're going to be. And these women just really stole the show and rose to the occasion. The audience started chanting, 'this is wrestling' and 'women's wrestling."
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