Equal Rights, How Far Have They Come? Recently the women’s national soccer team won the world championship. Instead of them being on cloud nine, they felt cheated from all of their hard work. Why do sport companies have such a big problem with making pay equal? Women have worked unbelievingly hard for everything they have gotten. They have fought for freedoms and now sports companies expect them to sit back and watch this injustice happen, NOT A CHANCE. Women should earn equal pay to play sports because they have gained popularity in the sports world, they have proven that they work just as hard as men, and they can help bring positive publicity to women’s sports. First, women’s sports have gained popularity. In the earliest of times everyone knows that men are stronger or are better at sports. Which everyone suspects because originally women were supposed to watch kids and cook. Now times are changing. For example, “In 1971 only 294,000 girls played high school sports, …show more content…
In 2015, the US national soccer team had finally won their first world championship and couldn’t be happier about it. They played teams around the world and came out on top, but they didn’t feel on top of the world. “The teams captains, Alex Morgan, Hope Solo, Carli Lloyd, Becky Sauerbrunn and Megan Rapinoe, filed a complaint on behalf of their team to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discussing how their team has been more successful, had more games and even more television viewers then the men but still only get payed roughly half” (Kilgore 1). The team saw this as unfair and not right, they felt they had worked tremendously hard and deserved to make as much as the men. In addition this was unfair, “U.S. women's national team members earn between 38 percent and 72 percent of what men earn for each international exhibition match. The pay scale trickles down to small details, including female players receiving $50 per diem for food for
Mark Murphy, Director of Athletics at Northwestern University, who participated in an ESPN debate on the topic of paying student-athletes, argues that these athletes currently receive scholarships, whose value, in some instances, totals close to $200,000 over four years. He stated that all student-athletes have made similar commitments to the schools, and that football and basketball players should not be treated any different than other athletes, who participate in sports that are not as popular and lucrative. Paying athletes anything beyond a scholarship, argues Murphy, would cause problems, particularly from a gender equity standpoint. What Murphy seems to referring to when he says "gender equity" is Title IX federal regulations, which cut off federal funding of colleges if those colleges discriminate on the basis of sex. Paying male student athletes more than female student-athletes could possibly be construed as discrimination.
One would think that a professional player on an elite team would be making enough money to support herself and continue doing what she loves, but this assumption is sadly false. Rejzovic plays volleyball professionally and has a full-time job as though she is an amateur. According to the chairman of her club team, she is playing the wrong sport and is not of the opposite gender. Rejzovic stated, “Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed of becoming a pro. I thought it would be glamourous, but life as a pro isn’t what I imagined” (Tornkvist, 2016). The discrimination is preventing women from progressing forward in professional sports. Payment has nothing to do with performance because Rejzovic and her team has been number one in the league many times in the past ten years (Tornkvist,
This is a large percentage, especially when it is talking about someone 's income level. If people are using their income to support their family, spending the majority on food and other necessities, than how is a single mother suppose to provide for her family if she is not given the opportunity to be fairly compensated. Compensation includes necessities such as, a person 's wage, employer-sponsored health and retirement benefits, training opportunities, work arrangements, and paid family or sick leave (Blau and Kahn). These differences range between education levels and opportunities. The biggest gaps between a compensation levels exists among men and women with advanced degrees, while the smallest gap is present among less educated individuals. Additionally, women are fairly sparse among the highest paying jobs, information services, mining, logging, and utilities, but are extremely represented within the lowest average wage job industries, leisure and hospitality, retail trade, and other services. Some studies even show that women in science related fields will leave due to a “macho or hostile environment” (Blau and
Women in sports demand quality assurance for their hard work. Sad to say this is not implemented in the sports “world” of women. “One of the theories behind this is that society doesn’t like to see women in roles that go against the norm of what a woman “should be” (Rodriguez).” Fortunately this stems from ignorance and prejudice beliefs. Especially through the media, both of which can be learned. The media can alter sports viewer’s opinions by relaying positive messages toward women’s sports. As well as sports authoritators distributing equal pay for equal work. The abundant amount of support that the media and viewers allocate will allow a higher amount of equality for women in the sports industry. This kind of support will lead women in sports salaries rise and eventually match the hardship of achievements as a minority in today’s sports
Women earn an average of only 77% of what men make (“Look” n.p.). This is even with the Equal Pay Act of 1963 in place. Some people believe women in sports do not deserve to be paid the same salary as the men that play the same sports. There is significant proof to show they deserve the money and have the right to it. The difference between the pay of the U.S. men’s soccer team and the women’s soccer team is substantial.
It’s important to reward an athlete either female or male for their efforts and achievements. Giving a lower salary or less prize money to an athlete because of their gender is condescending and sexist. Women train as hard, plays as strong and use the same amount of effort as their fellow male athletes so there is no reason for male athletes to get paid more for the same sport. Men and women work equally as hard to be the best they can be and should be rewarded for their accomplishments. Women have been working for many years to be equal with their male counterparts especially in sport.
If only women would be known for being outspoken and being in a higher position than men. Women only had the power and freedom to be higher than men in society. When college women graduate they dislike the inequality but they will take it because that’s what they have been thought. It all goes back to the women movement in 1970 when they had no opportunities, but now they have grown so much, but not yet for the equal pay. Women want to get paid higher but still don’t have more than 17% going to college from 1970 which was 42% and is now 57% it’s been this way for the past 10 years.
For many years in United States, equal salary pay for women has been a major issue that women have been fighting for decades. This began back in World War II, when the National Labor Board urged equalize the salary rates for women with the same rates that males were getting of the same professions. (Rowen) Although, traditionally most women do not work to provide for there family and there are not so many independent women during World War II. After World War II more women lost their jobs to veterans returning to the workforce. Women in the workforce after the war have been discriminated ever since. The idea of women as weak and cannot perform there jobs
Female athletes should get the same pay as men do because they work just as hard. According to the article, “Equal Pay for Equal Play” published in the January 9, 2017 edition of Upfront Magazine states that the women of the U.S. Soccer Federation got paid less than the men even though the women had more success than the men. Carli Lloyd, a female soccer player states that “When we started to see the men’s contracts and saw the differences it really opened our eyes. When you do the comparisons, it’s
It can approximately for men footballer gets difference of $ 410.000 million, much in football world cup compare to female footballers. Some of the expects argue that this pay isn’t unfair as many sports male play longer than women in most sports male also have more games in the seasons , Even though there is pay difference leagues this gap doesn’t need to be closed because, other glaringly large difference between the sexes in the effect athletic training has on female and male bodies , because of differences in sex hormones and women’s bodies are much difference than men, male athletes have greater response to training motivations such as weight training strength compare to female athlete. On other hand they should be getting the same
From the beginning of history and to this day women still get paid less than the average man, but why? Whoever said that women are incapable of good work performance? Whoever said that women do not have the same responsibilities to maintain? What really makes a women’s work inferior to men? The answer is nothing. Today, women are depended on just as much as men, and are capable of performing at their level. However, a full-time working woman earns only seventy-seven cents for every dollar a man makes. These days women make up half the workplace in our society; they work just as hard and for the same reasons. Women deserve to be paid at an equal rate as men because they are relied on to uphold the same responsibilities and are just as qualified to perform at a man’s level.
Whilst others argue that humans, unrelatedly to gender, ought to be reimbursed equally for the same labour. Professional men’s leagues/competitions have established extensively large fan bases, enabling companies to further promote and manipulate consumers. Female sporting professions, with the exception of very few, struggle to gain the same investments due to preconceived theories regarding the difference in intensity and standard. Individual endorsements are presented to both genders, but are more readily accessible to male competitors subsequent to popularity.
In lot of sports the men are payed more than women only because they are men and in some sports the women had decided to face it and ask for
Women’s right to equal pay or gender pay gap has been a subject of discussion over the years in the united states, women perform similar jobs to men, but are paid
Women have always had less choices in life when it came to many things. At some point women had no voting rights, women couldn’t work, and they were expected to stay home and take care of children for many years. Women have just started having independent lives and many people still do not believe it is right. A blog entry online called “Married Women Should Not Work”, established several points as to why women are better off staying home while their husbands work. This article was written by a woman who states she is anti-feminist. It has always been in our history that women are meant to stay home and take care of the children and the household, just because it has always been that way does not mean it should stay that way. I can see why people feel that life should stay this way. A life where women stay at home all day doing house chores, look after children, cook dinner for their husbands, and repeat the next day. It is difficult to change how life has always been set, as a result many people today still strongly oppose women working,