Unequal Pay Of Women In Sports

Centuries ago, sports started to catch the attention of both genders and started to become involved in the new way of living. Communicators and media had a large contribution of how an individual viewed athletes while at the same time making an impact on their own reactions. The unequal rights that women received are one of the major factors that have changed throughout the years. The Title IX of the Education Act of 1972 changed the unequal rights that athletic women where receiving. This Act changed the percentage of female college student participation in sports. When this happened, leagues saw that women were starting to focus in improving in sports. Although it changed for most of female athletes, many of them still saw unequal opportunities.

Sean’s research supports the idea of how when playing the same sports males athletes got paid more in compare to what the females get paid without considering the successful games that the female hockey team puts in. The idea of inequality that occurred in the years with the female gender are the same to what happened to females in the past in which unequal pay was clearly seen. However, there has been acts made that claim to be there so that women get paid the same amount as man. The journalists Christopher B. Snow and Jane K. Snow wrote an article about the Equal Pay Act of 1963 explaining about the intention that the act was bringing. The purpose of the Act was to bring equal pay to both genders in which “No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed” (Snow 15). Although the purpose of the Act was to establish equal pay to both genders the discrimination of unfair pay among was still seen since hockey was being played by both genders, however the female athletes where getting paid

Erin Lea Gilreath makes a study from the 1950s to the 1960s to see and understand the experience of female athlete students in the sports. The name of the research that he makes is called “From Field Days to Olympic Gold: How Black Women Revitalized Track and Field in the United States”. In the research Gilreath incorporates firsthand information taken from those years of research to show that females where starting to get involved in sports in which brought a change in the standards that leagues had towards