Women are serious athletes, who have become champions, intense competitors and sporting icons, however, there is still a significant gender gap within pay rates between female and male athletes. Female athletes can clearly generate immense interest worthy of equal pay for example, the women’s Rugby Seven Olympic finial attracted over 1.2million television viewers. Clearly women’s sport is equally as professional and attention-grabbing as men’s. They are defiantly generating enough interest to justify equal pay. Sport equity is defined by Lancashire as ‘equally accessible to all members of society, whatever their age, ability, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality or social economic status'. Yet there are still major pay rate differences, this
