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Gender Pay Gap In Sports Essay

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Sean Carlson
Mrs. Barry
English
19 May 2023
Gender Pay Gap in Professional Sports Although there have been efforts made to solve the gender pay gap problem, it continues to be an issue in professional sports. (The Telescope) found that the WNBA loses 10 million dollars a year and the NBA makes 8 billion dollars a year. One major issue to this problem is the inequity of how female athletes are treated. Another issue is corporate greed, since these larger organizations could afford to pay all athletes equally. Finally, While some sports are moving to make positive changes, much work still needs to be done to achieve full equality. First, female athletes are not treated equally. One reason for this is, not the most paid NBA player but one of them Stephen Curry was making 46 million dollars in 2022 and some of the highest paid WNBA players were making 230,000 thousand dollars(CBS News) The three highest paid players being—Diana Taurasi, Jewell Loyd and Breanna Stewart—In Addition CBS News also found that most of the WNBA players aren’t even close to making that much. Most of them were making around 130,000 thousand dollars. In soccer the men get paid much more but the women are so much better. They have won multiple world cups and the farthest the men have made it was 3rd place in …show more content…

The NBA owns the WNBA so they could pay the WNBA players more because NBA players get paid millions of dollars. On the other hand in soccer they have worked to change the gender pay gap because they had enough money to do so. Another organization that has worked pretty well with handling this is tenis. Serina Williams makes around 50 million dollars and Roger Federer makes 84 million dollars. 54 million dollars is a lot but still 34 million dollars is a big difference too.(CBS News) Also The Book One Life found that women during the world cup had to play on artificial turf which is a lot easier to get hurt on then the grass that the men get to play

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