U.S just like any other sport. This makes media a large determiner of the popularity of a particular sport, which in turn dictates the pay received by the athletes. According to The Washington post, the salary of an athlete, for example a soccer player depends greatly upon their popularity. For instance, the Men’s Soccer league make more money than the Women’s Soccer league, owing to a greater popularity ratio and fan following ( The Washington Post). The UNESCO has spotted out that only a staggering 4% of all sports media content is dedicated towards women’s sport and only 12% of all news presented publicly is of women athletes. Thus, as stated by the Director General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, World Radio Day
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The very first formal policy was introduced by the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission called the Equal Pay Act in 1963, which said that there shall be no discrimination between the men and women existing in the same establishment performing jobs that require equal skills, efforts or responsibility under similar conditions. Even though this policy was introduced, gender disparity on wages in sports existed widely. Following this being put into effect, statistics have shown that within the international competition bracket, the U.S Men’s National team earn more than $50,000 for qualifying for the World Cup, while on the other hand the women only receive $15,000 for achieving the same. Andrew Das has reported to The New York Times, that when playing international games, the Men’s National Soccer Team is paid $75 per diem, while the Women’s National Soccer Team only receives $60 per diem accompanied with a smaller wage for making public appearances versus the players of the other gender (The New York Times). Hence, these anecdotal and statistical evidences expose the major disparity existing between the U.S Soccer teams with respect to wages. Certain evidences as stated by articles in The Atlantic and The New York Times also highlight the fact that the U.S Women’s National Soccer team were more successful than the men but were still paid a lesser wage by the faculties incharge. Thus, it clearly demonstrates the futility and ineffectiveness of the Equal Pay Act in eliminating gender disparities in terms of wage discrimination in U.S Soccer. The Equal Pay Act has been applied to various platforms in the U.S. This includes, office employment, sport athletes etc. Certain loopholes and faults in the firmness of this policy has reduced it’s effectiveness over the years and gender disparity on basis of wages still occurs, although the policy is in
The very first formal policy was introduced by the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission called the Equal Pay Act in 1963, which said that there shall be no discrimination between the men and women existing in the same establishment performing jobs that require equal skills, efforts or responsibility under similar conditions. Even though this policy was introduced, gender disparity on wages in sports existed widely. Following this being put into effect, statistics have shown that within the international competition bracket, the U.S Men’s National team earn more than $50,000 for qualifying for the World Cup, while on the other hand the women only receive $15,000 for achieving the same. Andrew Das has reported to The New York Times, that when playing international games, the Men’s National Soccer Team is paid $75 per diem, while the Women’s National Soccer Team only receives $60 per diem accompanied with a smaller wage for making public appearances versus the players of the other gender (The New York Times). Hence, these anecdotal and statistical evidences expose the major disparity existing between the U.S Soccer teams with respect to wages. Certain evidences as stated by articles in The Atlantic and The New York Times also highlight the fact that the U.S Women’s National Soccer team were more successful than the men but were still paid a lesser wage by the faculties incharge. Thus, it clearly demonstrates the futility and ineffectiveness of the Equal Pay Act in eliminating gender disparities in terms of wage discrimination in U.S Soccer. The Equal Pay Act has been applied to various platforms in the U.S. This includes, office employment, sport athletes etc. Certain loopholes and faults in the firmness of this policy has reduced it’s effectiveness over the years and gender disparity on basis of wages still occurs, although the policy is in