Female Athletes Should Get Paid Essay

Imagine you are playing your favorite sport with thousands of people watching chanting your name and, your friend plays the same sport The stats have proving men should make more in almost every sport in america. Although I do believe in gender equality and equal pay in the workforce; Women athletes should not get paid as much as male athletes because not as many people watch, make less sponsor revenue, and when they do have the same crowd and sponsors they are paid the same.
Men and women all do the same things in the different sports, they put in the same time, they practice just as hard and they don't get paid the same. This was first brought to the attention of the public by the U.S. women's soccer team. They thought it was unfair that they won the world cup and the men lost in the round of 16 but, the men got paid more. Most women sports is actually very new compared to the mens. They could only compete in the olympics in 1900. Also the WNBA only started about 15 years ago.
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“NBA attendance dipped slightly to a little more than 17,300 a game compared to the WNBA league's overall average of 7,403” according to Tribune News and ESPN. Almost 10,000 less people go to the women's games then the mens, and people are saying they should get paid the same. Money made from tickets alone lead to a significant gap in the income of each team. Also “according to ESPN, MLS games on ESPN and ESPN2 have delivered an average audience of 312,000 viewers.” compared to the NWLS “set the league average at around 70,000 viewers” Men's soccer in the US has 445% more views than women's soccer in the US. That is just on TV as well if we looked at the game attendance like we did for the NBA the number would be even greater. Overall the male sports have a way bigger fanbase than the women and whoever has more fans should get more