'Women coaching men? That's bizarre'
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"I was on the sideline once and an old-boy just standing there shouted 'Calm down sweetheart'.
It made me rage, but I just had to not respond and think, 'OK, he's ignorant, that's his problem.
'"
Katherine Merchant and Rochelle 'Rocky' Clark are Rugby World Cup winners with 156 caps between them.
But as women coaching men's rugby teams, they still encounter on a routine basis the sort of sexist attitudes Merchant recounts.
Clark, 33, who won her
98th cap in England's 11-8 Six Nations defeat by Ireland
on Friday, and Merchant, 29, who was forced to retire l…
It made me rage, but I just had to not respond and think, 'OK, he's ignorant, that's his problem.
'"
Katherine Merchant and Rochelle 'Rocky' Clark are Rugby World Cup winners with 156 caps between them.
But as women coaching men's rugby teams, they still encounter on a routine basis the sort of sexist attitudes Merchant recounts.
Clark, 33, who won her
98th cap in England's 11-8 Six Nations defeat by Ireland
on Friday, and Merchant, 29, who was forced to retire l…
