Salaries of Female Athletes: Should They Be Paid Equal?
Athletes of the female gender throughout the world are being seriously underpaid compared to their male counterparts. Women in sports are having trouble pursuing their dream of being a professional athlete because most can’t get scholarships to pay for school and training, and have less opportunities to play their sport because of underfunding of the program. After college, women athletes are having trouble finding jobs because there are less leagues, teams, and open positions for female athletes and there aren’t any co-ed professional leagues. Most women athletes are having trouble paying their expenses just by playing their sport so they have to get other jobs. Even for winning tournaments, …show more content…
As wikipedia.org mentioned, “Throughout the world, most top female athletes are not paid, and must work full-time or part-time jobs in addition to their training, practices and competition schedules. The WNBA pays the top women players 60 times less than top men players. The minimum salary for a female basketball players in the WNBA is $38,913 and the maximum salary is $109,500. The minimum salary for a male player in the NBA is $525,093 and the maximum is $16.407 million. So, even if the female players are better players, they are still paid less than most male players because of their gender. In golf, the total prize money for the 2014 PGA tour was over $340 million, which is quite a bit compared to the new high for the 2015 LPGA tour, which was $61.6 million. This past year has been a very revolutionary year for Women’s Soccer. Canada hosted the WWC and the USWNT won the tournament. For their win, the team got $2 million. For the German National Men’s Team, who won the 2014 World Cup the year before, they got $35 million for their win, while the USMNT who lost out in the Round of 16 and got 15th, received $9 million. Still in soccer, the NWSL players are paid between $6,000-$30,000, while players in the MLS get paid a minimum of $50,000. The highest paid player in the NWSL, Alex Morgan, made $450,000 in 2015, which much of her salary was from sponsorships. The
Athletes of the female gender throughout the world are being seriously underpaid compared to their male counterparts. Women in sports are having trouble pursuing their dream of being a professional athlete because most can’t get scholarships to pay for school and training, and have less opportunities to play their sport because of underfunding of the program. After college, women athletes are having trouble finding jobs because there are less leagues, teams, and open positions for female athletes and there aren’t any co-ed professional leagues. Most women athletes are having trouble paying their expenses just by playing their sport so they have to get other jobs. Even for winning tournaments, …show more content…
As wikipedia.org mentioned, “Throughout the world, most top female athletes are not paid, and must work full-time or part-time jobs in addition to their training, practices and competition schedules. The WNBA pays the top women players 60 times less than top men players. The minimum salary for a female basketball players in the WNBA is $38,913 and the maximum salary is $109,500. The minimum salary for a male player in the NBA is $525,093 and the maximum is $16.407 million. So, even if the female players are better players, they are still paid less than most male players because of their gender. In golf, the total prize money for the 2014 PGA tour was over $340 million, which is quite a bit compared to the new high for the 2015 LPGA tour, which was $61.6 million. This past year has been a very revolutionary year for Women’s Soccer. Canada hosted the WWC and the USWNT won the tournament. For their win, the team got $2 million. For the German National Men’s Team, who won the 2014 World Cup the year before, they got $35 million for their win, while the USMNT who lost out in the Round of 16 and got 15th, received $9 million. Still in soccer, the NWSL players are paid between $6,000-$30,000, while players in the MLS get paid a minimum of $50,000. The highest paid player in the NWSL, Alex Morgan, made $450,000 in 2015, which much of her salary was from sponsorships. The