Men and Women Should get paid the same:
Do you think men and women should get paid the same? If so, this article is for you. I’m going to teach you all about the pay gaps. In fact did you know that even though the U.S. women’s soccer team is so much better but they still get paid so much less than men. If you read this article I bet you will think men and women should get paid the same.
The biggest pay gap is in basketball. The pay gap between men and women in basketball is outrageous. First keep in mind that these were the salaries in 2018. I’ll give you how much men get paid but first drumroll please… Men got paid 4.5 million dollars. Now drumroll again… Women got paid 70,000 dollars. That is so much less money than what men get paid and WNBA players work really hard but it’s just like they do it for nothing.
I’m also sad about the pay gap in soccer because it is also pretty bad . But I still have to talk about it. The U.S. men got paid 207,831 dollars and the U.S. women got paid 30,000 dollars, which is still a pretty big pay gap. Women are so much better in this sport so they should get paid more but they don’t. Even though they have more world cup wins and more Olympic gold medals.
The thing that is the craziest to me is that they do the same sport but the men get paid so much more money. It’s like men get paid more than a million dollars for being on TV, and women get paid so much less money for doing the same thing on TV. Women play also
Now we are going to get to a good sport. Women get paid more than men. That sport is tennis. In tennis, women got paid 345,000 dollars and the men get paid 260,000 dollars. This was also in 2018, but now men get paid more than women in tennis. I’m not just saying that I want men to get paid less than women, I’m just saying I want them to get paid the same. Some people think that men should get paid more because they are stronger or more popular or they work harder. But I think that women work just as hard and can be just as strong or just as popular. They can even be better.
I hope you have learned a lot from this article and I hope I’ve educated you a lot on this topic.
February 26, 2020 at 8:49 pm
Hey hal, as someone who believes deeply in pay equity, how do you account for the difference in what men and women bring in to play their sports. Many more tickets are sold in the NBA than the WNBA. (The one argument that doesn’t fit this is in soccer.) How do we get women’s basketball to be as popular to ensure that women have the same opportunity to earn as men?
February 26, 2020 at 8:50 pm
Great article! Very informative!
February 26, 2020 at 8:52 pm
Hey Hallie! You make some great points — you might want to broaden this beyond sports. You might also want to look at the relative revenue and audience numbers for the various teams. One of the things that drive the salaries is how much the teams make. Yet another reason women’s soccer should get more!