Pay Disparity In Sports Essay

Despite the raise in popularity of women’s sports not only nationally but worldwide. Females are still seeming to get the short end of the stick. The wage gap between males and females has been a debatable topic ever since the evolution of jobs and paychecks. This war has been infusing for generations upon generations. Now 2016 rolling into 2017 we are still fighting for equal pay. In all levels of employment especially women’s professional athletics.

The countering argument made to justify the pay disparity in women’s professional sports is the revenue generated by it male counter parts exceeds their total revenue validating why their wages were exceeding higher. This argument is getting outdated. Even though there may be some truth in that proposal the popularity in women’s sports continues to grow every single day. But the wages stay

In golf Lydia Ko won the LPGA’s first major and was given 390,000 check. This check was 21.6 percent! The 1.8 million dollars earned by Spieth for his master’s victory. Golf has an extremely rich history of shortchanging women in their profession. Which dates to the early 1900s. female players were getting fed up from the lack of tournaments and leagues available to them and formed their own tour, the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Females were quoted to making even less than 10% the revenue made by men. Marylinn Smith defended her back to back title and was awarded 1,300 dollars. 6.6 percent to the 20,000 Arnold Palmer won for his master’s title. Even though women earning have risen for golf in the last decade the gap is still very prevalent. In 2014 Michelle Wie won her first national title and was awarded 720,000 check in prize money. Along way from being given 1,300 dollars. But still she only earned 44.4 percent of the 1.62-million-dollar paycheck offered to Martin Kaymer. We are making strides but still have a long way to go. (Saffer,