Analysis: Why Female Athletes Should Not Be Paid

Over the past few decades, we've seen many gender equality movements fighting for equal pay for women. However, the sports field is often overlooked in the fight. There are fewer professional female athletes, and female athletes tend to make less than their male counterparts, something I strongly disagree with. There’s a common factor such as male athletes get much better times in track events. Another example is, the men’s world record in the 100m is 9.58s and the women’s record is 10.47s. If men perform so much better, shouldn’t they be paid based on quality? In athletics, a professional woman often competes on the same level as high school or college men. Take ice hockey as an example, there are both men's and women's events at the Winter

But this can’t happen due to not enough sponsorships and viewers, Women cannot control the way their body is built. If the fastest woman in the world can run the 100m dash in 10.59 seconds, then obviously that is their max. Women have yet to beat this record, so it's evident that no matter how much they train, women can't increase their speed much more due to their body anatomy. It isn't a controlled issue. Therefore, their pay should not be based on such a factor. A difference in sport performance can also have to do with the anatomy of a muscle. The physiological characteristics but size does differ performance and growth. Muscle fibre between a male and female athlete's body do not vary significantly. However, the difference comes in the response to training. Most muscle is stimulated by the release of testosterone and androgen. Due to women having higher estrogen levels, this means women have more body fat than men, 8% for women and 4% for men. So this means there muscle growth isn’t as much as men, but thee joints are more flexible. Testosterone helps men get larger skeletal muscles, and also have larger hearts. Testosterone also increases the production of red blood cells, which therefore absorb more oxygen and giving men a greater aerobic advantage. (how do men and women differ athletically,

People should be asking why fans and sponsors are less interested in supporting women’s sports. This is because again there aren’t enough sponsors and viewers. Female attributes come into this as well, women do not have the excitement men bring to sports, such as soccer, basketball, hockey etc. when a sport is more exciting that is what attracts the viewers, which then therefore attracts more money and