Salary Gap
The salary gap between men and women in sports is very distinct.
The salary gap between men and women in sports is very distinct.
"The maximum salary in the WNBA is $107,000. Kobe Bryant will earn $30.5 million from the Los Angeles Lakers next season" (Source 3).
"The highest-paid player in the WNBA (the Women's National Basketball Association) makes roughly one-fifth that of the lowest-paid player," (Source 1).
"In the ranking of the 100 highest-paid athletes, there is just one woman - tennis star Serena Williams" (Source 1).
"She's in position 51 and has an income that is $66m (£50m) lower than Cristiano Ronaldo's, the world's top earning sportsman according to Forbes" (Source 1).
"Female US footballers also received four times less than their fellow nationals in the male version of the tournament, even though the men lost in their first knockout match" (Source 1).
"Fifa... handed out $15m for the women's World Cup and $576m for the men's - an amount almost 40 times larger" (Source 1)
Contrary to popular belief, still to this day the gap between men's and women's salaries in sports is incredibly large. It is unfair to the women that are going out and working just as hard or harder as their male counterpart and not making the same amount of money. It is reasons like this that discourage women to even try and pursue sports once they hit high school or college. They know that there is no solid future in their given sport.
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