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Hi everyone.

I'm Eva not Emma and we did our final project

on the unequal treatment of women in sports in spain.

So the first topic that we're going to talk about

is the history of sexism and sports in spain.

Um The franco dictatorship caused change in spain to occur

a lot later than a lot of other western societies.

Um And so during this time the there are a lot of ideas that were being reinforced,

such as traditional family structure.

Um the importance of Catholicism um and gender logic and then also

sports participation for both genders was pretty low at this time.

Um even though the Franco dictatorship ended in 7 1975.

Um the first Olympic medal won by Spanish Female Athlete was not until 1992.

Her name is Almudena Munoz and she won a gold medal

um Over time women's participation in spain.

Um and the olympics has increased um but it's still not exactly where it should be.

Um Speaking of participation,

um The third topic or the second topic

we'll be talking about is the participation statistics.

Um As we learned in class Federated participants,

participants are participants that are part of

an organization or licensed sports players.

Um And volleyball is the only sports team in

Spain with more Federated women players than men.

Um The chart on the slide is taken from class notes.

Um And we can just see the disproportionate amount

of men compared to women in these sports.

Um There are other Federated sports that are female dominated,

but they're not team sports.

Um These sports include gymnastics, volleyball, horse riding,

sports dancing and skating.

Um A lot of these sports are judged and not reliant on scoring points.

This is because just score points and a lot of sports

you need three qualities that men will always overpower women in.

And these three qualities are power, speed and strength.

So the next topic we're going to discuss

is income disparities between men and women.

Um

athletes in Spain.

Um So

the real gender gap comes in the amount of money

that is earned between men and women in sports.

Um For example in gulf in Spain there's a difference in

the winnings of male and female players between two or more than

Over $1 million, nearly €888,000.

Um And we see this in other sports like cycling as well where the

woman's team earns about a third less than those in the men's team.

And finally the biggest gap that we see

as in soccer um where the women's professional soccer

league has no minimum salary. So some players are earning

Only €200 a month and have to take on 2nd and 3rd jobs.

Um just to be able to play while members of the men's soccer league um are earning tens

of millions of dollars a year and are playing

for some of the richest franchises in the world.

Um for example uh messy who

used to play for Fc Barcelona and now plays for P. S. G.

earned about €8.3 million

in a month

And then we see with members of teams who win championships

earning much less on female teams than on male teams.

So in 2017 members of the women's Athletic atletico Madrid team

received €54 as a prize for winning the league.

And um for Real Madrid who won the same trophy for winning the league,

each received €300,000 a player.

So there's a huge gap in money earns

male and female or male and female sports.

Um There are some recent breakthroughs that we have seen um

And this has come with the increased participation of girls and women in sports.

So um in 2017 we saw the number of women playing soccer um growing by 36%.

Um

And then in 2019 there was a record

match where two women's teams Athletico Madrid and Fc

Barcelona um drew in a crowd of over 60,000

Spectators which is something that is not typically seen

um In addition to the increase in women participating. Um

And uh fans of female sports,

we also see professional teams um For the first

time having companies invest millions of dollars in them.

Um in 2016 the energy company either

I did rolla became the women's professional leagues first sponsor.

Um And after this other companies that include Herbal Life and

Stanley Black and Decker began sponsoring individual clubs as well.

So with these sponsorship um opportunities comes more money for players,

for staff hires and broadcasting opportunities.

Um so now the best paid women on the league's top

teams can earn up to €2,000 a month playing soccer,

which is about enough for them to live in Spain.

So that's the absolute bare minimum compared to

the millions that men are making a month.

Um So obviously this is an issue that can

be looked at through a critical feminist theory lens.

Um And then again,

the main claim of this theory is that sports are gendered activities.

Um So some issues that are still prevalent in today's society

um that we're going to look at our budget cutbacks,

viewers limited interest in women athletes and women's sports emphasis

on the beauty standard and being skinny instead of strong,

not enough female coaches or females in position of power,

and that goes along with not enough female doctors for

these female athletes and then resistance to government legislation.

Um There's a quote from our textbook by Coakley.

Um and that quote is there is a need to understand the

connection between sports gender relations and

dominant definitions of masculinity in society,

or women in sport will merely contribute to re create and perpetuate the status quo,

which favors men.

So this is going back to what we said before that how men

still hold social and cultural control over the sports industry in spain.

Um for example, the traditional gender logic basically entails. Um

The idea that men are just better than women in every aspect.

Um And again,

sports are based on three qualities that men will always

be superior to women in um just based on nature,

which are speed, strength and power.

Um And the lack of media coverage makes the

gap between female and male athletes much worse.

So now on the spanish perception of female sports and athletes,

um we created an online survey to gain primary data

on residents of Barcelona's perceptions of female sports and athletes.

So um we approached many people until we found answers from

five female participants and five male participants um in our neighborhood,

which is example, and we asked them to fill out an eight question survey.

Um So we also realized um after we made the presentation um that even though

on the original survey we had made the questions in both spanish and english,

um unfortunately my computer automatically translated

the results to all english,

which is why it will look like that in the next few slides, but

the questions were not asked twice, they were in both spanish and english.

Um So now if everyone could just take two minutes to fill out the survey,

we wrote it on the whiteboard.

Um and then we'll go over the results after.

So the first question um just asked about gender and

again we had 50% male participants and 50% female participants.

And then the second question on our survey asked about our participants age range,

so 20% of them were under 18,

were between the ages of 19 and 35,

30% were between the ages of 35 and 50,

and then finally there was 20% above the age of 50,

so we had a pretty wide range of ages.

Um and then the third question asked the participants if they

preferred in general to watch female sports or male sports.

Um 70% of the participants said that they favored watching male sports,

which is very interesting to us because

The participants in our survey were 50% male and 50% female.

Um And then the fourth question was an open ended question.

It asked the participants who their sports idol was um The

response consisted of five male athletes and three female athletes.

Um That's because messi and Garbine Muguruza were both repeated. Um

And then one thing that we found, we listed the names on this slide,

but one thing that we found very interesting is that one of the

three female athletes um isn't even from Spain and that's serena Williams.

So there were only two spanish female athletes listed.

Um And then the fifth question on the survey was for us to get a

deeper understanding of how people feel about the

income disparity between female and male athletes.

So we saw that 60% of the participants um

answer that all athletes should receive equal pay,

which left 40% arguing that females should not receive people pay,

which was a little surprised just above half.

And then the six question asked if participants

were able to name five female spanish athletes,

and um 70% of the participants responded no,

with only 30% of the participants being able to name five spanish athletes,

female spanish athletes.

Um and then question seven was,

how would you describe the coverage of female athletes and sports in the media?

Um so participants were able to choose

between above average average and below average.

Um answer is obviously below average, but um 60% said average,

10% said above average and 30% said below average.

And then um our last question we asked in regard

to the last time participants watched a female sporting event.

So um 10% of the participants,

participants had watched um a female sporting event in the past week,

20% in the past month,

20% um in the past six months.

And then um we had 30% of the participants responding,

saying that they could not recall the last time they watched

a female sporting event or that they just had not.

So um

it seemed to be the highest percentage was

that participants were not watching female sporting events.

That didn't really shock us, but yeah, it's still kind of bizarre to see.

Um So for our conclusions from the survey,

the main thing we took away is that women in sports still have much less

visibility and recognition than um men in sports um with Spain's history of sports,

it's no surprised us that this was these were the results of the survey.

Um these people, most of them at least favored male athletes

and they believed that men is um deserved more screen time,

greater pay and things like that.

And then um just some overall conclusions,

um there were many factors that had led to the dominance of men in sports in Spain.

Um One of those was the prevalence of men in leadership roles in sports.

Um there was a substantial factor we saw that um all the presidents of the national

olympic sports federations um with the exception of

the sports sailing were run by men.

Um there was only about 29% of female registered

coaches um that were employed at the elite level

um and there hasn't been

a ton of action to improve this um and this disproportion

disproportionate representation

um of women and leadership roles continues to contribute

to the male domination in sports in Spain.

Um There are also other issues that need to

be addressed regarding female sports and athletes in Spain.

Um So a few suggestions that we have come up with to improve

this issue is implementing more female coaches and doctors for the teams,

um banning uniform policies that are based on gender

and attempts to take away the emphasis from the beauty standard and

beauty women as fit and then also to go off of that.

Um These are solutions that should be implemented not only in spain but all over

the world because we see in like several other countries such as like the U.

S. Um issue with Larry Nassar. Um he got to

he took advantage of so many females um young females to it's a horrible

situation and that could have been avoided if it was a female doctor.

Um So just like all over the world, these things should be implemented like

banning uniform policies based on gender, gender.

What we talked about with the volleyball women's um uniform and then just um also

all over the world stopped viewing it as important for women to be skinny.

So all in all these um consequences of the divide between men and women are complex.

But

um what is pretty clear is that the future of female athletes won't be

able to be fully realized without equality being shown on and off the field.

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