Essay Why Female Athletes Should Be Paid

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. Professional female athletes have been getting paid less to do the same job as professional male athletes do. They should get paid the same amount as the men that play the same sport as them at the same level. Women athletes should be paid the same amount as the male athletes that play sports for any country.

The U.S. Women’s soccer team made $33 million less in the 2015 World Cup than the Germany’s Men’s soccer team did when they won the 2014 World Cup; “U.S. team would turn from the international governing body of soccer, FIFA, ...”(Mertens) “Last year, Germany, the winner of the men’s World Cup, took home $35 million.” (Mertens). The U.S. Women’s team and Germany’s Men’s team should of made the same amount because they both won their World Cup. They both had to go through many games, and rounds to get to the top. Both of them worked just as hard as the other to win the World Cup. Yeah, one team is male and one is female but why should that …show more content…

Compare that team cap to men's Major League Soccer, which has a ceiling of more than $3 million, about 11 times more. The average MLS player makes $305,809 annually, according to sports analytics site sportingintelligence.” (Pramuk). If a male and a female has the same job as professional soccer athletes and goes through training which is similar to each other, they should get paid the same amount. There should be no pay gap between the male professional soccer players and professional female soccer players. They both travel to play games, they both participate in the World Cup that happens every 4 years, they both train hard, they both play their hardest on the soccer fields, etc. They do very similar things in their jobs so there should not be a pay difference between the genders in the same

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