https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7 en-us 2017-04-07 19:20:37 UTC 2017-04-10 19:44:53 UTC hello@padlet.com kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165466369 http://www.businessinsider.com/womens-small-soccer-salaries-are-fair-2015-7 ]]> 2017-04-07 19:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165466369 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165466871 "What separates men’s sports and women’s? There's one big difference — revenue. Female soccer players are paid less because their sport makes less. According to the Wall Street Journal, there was $17 million in sponsor revenue for this year's women's World Cup compared to $529 million for the 2014 men's tournament."]]> 2017-04-07 19:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165466871 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165467395 "And this is the real outrage. So many professional women’s sports initiatives are set up to fail because they don’t have enough support from the beginning. Sponsors set up shop for a year or two, then bolt when they don’t see immediate returns, which sends teams and leagues into survival mode almost from the beginning."]]> 2017-04-07 19:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165467395 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165467657 "The total prize pool for the women’s tournament was $15 million. Of that, the US women’s national team took home $2 million for their victory. That’s less than a quarter of the $9 million the US men’s team got last year for getting knocked out in the round of 16. The total prize pool for the men’s tournament was a whopping $576 million — 40 times the women’s haul."]]> 2017-04-07 19:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165467657 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165467919 "When the US National Women's Soccer League started up in 2013, Julie Foudy wrote for ESPN that “professional sports, for men and women, are not about who deserves them or who has earned the right to play professionally; professional sports leagues are governed by one simple principle -- what the market will bear.”]]> 2017-04-07 19:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165467919 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165468760 "But why is the market so small? For one thing, the entire market for professional soccer in the US is small — male players have minimum salaries of $36,500, and about a quarter of the MLS league makes less than $50,000 (though the top players make millions). For another, no one goes to games. Perhaps related, there’s very little sponsorship. In other words, if more people were actually paying to watch women's sports, the situation might be different."]]> 2017-04-07 19:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165468760 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165470612 "The real question is not why female athletes are paid less. People should be asking why fans and sponsors are less interested in supporting women's sports — and this is what they should be outraged about." 2 goes with this.]]> 2017-04-07 19:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165470612 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165470712 "However, you, dear reader, can do only one thing and it's not complaining about prize money on social media. If you want to fix the income disparity in women's sports, go buy a jersey or tickets for a game." This, 2, and 6 go together.]]> 2017-04-07 19:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165470712 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165470986 "In fact, most of the people who are complaining about the prize money are actually part of the problem. How many of them have actually been to a women's professional soccer game outside of the World Cup?" Goes with 1 and 5.]]> 2017-04-07 20:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165470986 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165765802 "I’m sure there are all sorts of technical details that could be used to explain just how the men’s game differs from the women’s, and they vary from sport to sport. The one answer that doesn’t hold up is that men’s sports are somehow inherently more interesting to watch than women’s. They are certainly not 40 times more interesting to watch."]]> 2017-04-10 19:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165765802 kldawson19 https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165765907 "Most of us have been socialized to accept men’s sports as dominant, and somehow automatically more interesting. The problem is that once society has internalized this falsehood — and let’s face it, it’s a falsehood that’s millennia in the making — it’s not so easy to correct it. Women have been fighting for decades, centuries, to be seen as equals to men both on the playing field and off of it."]]> 2017-04-10 19:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kldawson19/amc4y1nrdel7/wish/165765907