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Professional Sports Gender Pay Equality
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In the women's world cup there were 25.4 million viewers in the U.S.
In the men's world cup there were 17.3 viewers in the U.S.
Yet...
Professional Sports Wage Inequality
Payout by FIFA to 2014 men's champs Germany: $35 million. Payout to 2015 FIFA women's champs USA: $2 million.
Even though there were 8.1 million more viewers watching the women's world cup than the men's, the men champions got paid 33 million more than the women!!!
Another Example:
Pay Inequality between men and women isn't just a problem in professional sports.
Gender pay inequality is outrageous
Professional Basketball
For a WNBA player in the 2015 season, the minimum salary was $38,913, the maximum salary was $109,500, and the team salary cap in 2012 was $878,000.
We should be striving for this
Professional Sports Gender Pay Equality
Professional Basketball
For NBA players in the 2015-2016 season, the minimum salary is $525,093, the maximum salary is $16.407 million, and the team salary cap is an all-time high of $70 million.
This is CRAZY!!!
How is it that the best women basketball player in the world's salary is that much less than a player in the NBA who just sits on the bench and has never played a game in his life.
By Michael Archival
and Blake Benun
To end wage gaps between genders, our community as a whole has to except women as equal to men.
Don't get me wrong, in 2015 we have made a huge deal about making women equal to men, but we can still do better.
The minimum salary cap in the NBA is over $415,000 than the maximum salary in the WNBA!
The average man gets paid 21.7 percent more than the average women.