SPORTS EQUALITY

Asja Ragas

WHAT IS SPORTS EQUALITY?

Sport Equity is about fairness in sport,

equality of access recognizing inequalities

and taking steps to address them. It is
about changing the culture and structures
of sport to ensure that it becomes equally
accessible to all members of society,
whatever their age, ability, gender, race,
ethnicity, sexuality or social economic
status.

BEFORE TITLE IX

The only sports women were allowed to participate in was cheerleading and square
dancing.

Only 36% of women were a part of high school sports.

Women could not join faculty sports clubs, they could only join faculty wives clubs.

Women could not get scholarship money in sports for college, and if they did they would
only receive 2% of the overall budget.

Donna Varona got a gold medal in the Olympics and still was not allowed to receive a
sports scholarship.

TITLE IX
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be
excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be
subjected to discrimination under any education program or
activity receiving federal financial assistance.
After title ix schools who did not receive federal funding still had
the right to discriminate based on gender.
Title ix helped a lot in the equality of women but did not change
everything, there are still equality issues today.

TENNIS

Until 2005 men received 30% more prize money than women did at Wimbledon, without
anything being done about it.

Venus Williams went into the office the day before her match and demanded that women get
the same prize money as men.

In the meeting Venus said, Imagine you're a little girl. You're growing up. You practice as hard
as you can, with girls, with boys. You have a dream. You fight, you work, you sacrifice to get to
this stage. You work as hard as anyone you know. And then you get to this stage, and you're
told you're not the same as a boy. Almost as good, but not quite the same. Think how
devastating and demoralizing that could be.

In 1998 Venus said something about equal pay but did not do anything about it.

A lot of women were scared to talk about equal prize money and did not want to speak up.

In 2007 women and men received equal pay in all 4 Grand Slam events.

SOCCER

Women soccer players get paid a lot less than men soccer players.

The women's soccer team just won The World Cup and got paid 4 times less than the
men soccer's team who lost in the first round.

The men got paid 8 million per person and the women got paid 2 million per person.

WOMENS BASKETBALL VS. MEN

The WNBA first started in 1996 compared to the NBA which started in 1946.

There are more NBA teams the WNBA teams which gives men more of a opportunity to
pay professional basketball than women.

Men get paid way more in basketball.

For example a NBA player can get hurt and be out for almost a whole season and can
receive millions of dollars.

A WNBA player can play ever game and not even make a million dollars.

In 2010 Tina Charles was paid the leagues maximum at $105,000.

As of 2012 the average WNBA player gets paid 72,000 dollars and rookies start at 35,000
dollars.

The salary cap for the NBA is 67 million with a rookie contract starting at around 3 million.

TV TIME

Men's sports receive 92% of TV time while women sports only receive 8 percent.

A Los Angeles reporter said, women are seen as humorous sex objects but are missing
as athletes, that he why he thinks that women should not get as much TV time.

Men's sports get better cameras and equipment.

In a men's basketball game they will show replays, slow motions in more than one angel
and show graphics, in women's basketball they do not show as many.

The most TV time women sports gets is during the NCAA tournament.