On April 12, 2016 in American Sport in the 21st Century we talked about gender and sports, and the participation and equality issues. Family, school and media tend to steer boys and girls towards different things. Boys tend to get pushed towards sports and girls are pushed towards things that will not get them hurt. That is beginning to change and has been changing for a while now. More females are wanting to play in sports and show they can do just as well as males, if not better. Since the 1980’s, there has been a huge increase in sports participation by females.
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| The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team. |
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Solo, Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan and two other players for the U.S. women’s
national soccer team have filed a wage-discrimination action against the U.S.
Soccer Federation with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The women’s
team generates about $20 million more revenue than the men’s team does. Even
then the women are paid about a quarter of what the men make. The women’s team
received $2 million for winning the World Cup last year. The mean’s team got a
total of $9 million even though they got knocked out in the round of 16. The
EEOC filed a few interesting stats. If the women would win 20 friendlies they
would earn about $99,000 each. The men would earn about $263,320 for doing the
same thing. Even if they lose every game the men’s team would make $100,000.
The women’s team would make no money for playing more than 20 games, but if the
men’s team would do that they would make between $5,000 and $17,625 for each
game played after 20.
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