Speaking of life, I am in the midst of writing a paper and preparing a presentation for my communications class at university. For these assignments, I chose to focus on the wage gap in sports. This resulted in me getting increasingly angry as I read through my sources, which led to me scrolling through Instagram and trying to calm down.
I had almost lost myself in the void that is social media until I saw it. Glennon Doyle Melton posted a picture of her fiancé, Abby Wambach, with a quote from the speech Wambach gave to the United Nations about the lack of equality in sports. Sufficed to say, this did not make me feel any less angry but it did make me want to start this blog up again.
Here are somethings that I have found while doing research for my communications assignment:
- The 25 best female soccer player made about $341,000, while the corresponding male player said his salary was around $580,000. By the time you go down the list to the 50 best player, the male counterpart made 10 times as much as his female counterpart.
- Women's "per diem", the allotted money given to them during international games/tournaments for food, is $60 while the men get $75. Is the USSF thinking women eat less?
- In 2016, the women brought in $23 million in game revenue, $16 million more than projected
- When the women won the World Cup in 2015, they were awarded with $2 million. When the men got booted in the round of 16, they got $9 million.
- And probably the most surprising and mind-boggling fact of this whole debacle, the United States Women's National Soccer Team only gets paid if the win a game. Not if they tie and certainly not when they lose. This was a big issue during the She Believes cup these past few weeks, when the USWNT lost their winning title.
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| https://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2016/03/31/uswnt-eeoc-wage-discrimination-equal-pay |
These are also a few points I used in my presentation, which I gave today on Equal Pay Day. Seems fitting doesn't it?
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