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My Research Project question was inspired by my passion to rasie awarness of the injustices that female athletes face regarding their pay. For this reason, I researched “How can Australia minimise the pay discrepancy in professional sport?”
I utilised various Research processes, including reports, blogs, newspaper articles, radio interviews, web pages and interviews. The most valuable research processes were interviews, as they allowed me to create links between pay discrepancy, media and female sport sponsorship. These interviews were conducted with representatives of Australian sports organisations and lecturers in female sport.
My outcome was presented in the form of an article, which
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This is because Crosswhite has been involved in advocating for female sport for over 21 years, whilst associated with various organisations including the Australian Womensport and Recreation Association (AWARA). Due to the Crosswhite’s profession I could not obtain her contact details and hence could not contact her. However, to my surprise, I was given the opportunity, as current AWARA executive officer forwarded my email to former officer Crosswhite, who was willing to participate and answer research questions. This opportunity was very important as Crosswhite’s responses assisted in the development of answering my research project question, thus assisting with the development of many of my key findings and increasing the validity of my …show more content…
This is because my outcome relates all the issues in the media impacting the pay gap and explains how these issues can be reduced. Furthermore, my outcome was strengthened as it was presented as a blog article that is easy to read and be readily and easily available to the public and wider community. These factors are essential to attract a potentially larger audience range. Although, a limitation in my outcome is that I failed to acknowledge one definite solution to reduce the pay gap. This is because some key findings were more predominant and strengthened than others. In particular, the key finding based on the imbalance of media coverage in Australian sport was discussed into more depth than the finding based on the stereotypes and portrayal of female athletes influencing the pay gap. With the lacking information of information for particular key findings my outcome, in return lacked reliability and credibility as more information based on stereotypes was required. However, as a result of being limited to identify one specific solution to reduce the pay gap I identified multiple, potential solutions that could be enforced in Australia to collectively to reduce this inequality. With this in mind my article is valuable as it is directed to the wider community with the focus of
This essay expresses the opinion of Tara Siegel Bernard on behalf of the existence of the gender pay gap and focuses on it being a primary issue in the workplaces of major companies. The essay goes on to discuss how our society expects women and men to both behave in particular ways and how that idea has contributed to the ever present pay gap, such as how “. . . the imbalance often traces back to women being hired at a lower salary than their male peers” and “. . . women are less inclined to ask for raises. . .” Pointing out the possible reasons for the gender pay gap helps to establish the need for companies and our country’s leaders to find solutions.
In the article titled Face-off on the playing field By, Judith B. Stamper explains girls have their own story of support or discrimination, success also the debate of girls be allowed to compete on boys’ sports team. First, the writer Title IX explains female athletes are been treated second-class for long enough and should pass of inequalities and biases of girls. The writer also clarifies that girls doing sports make them healthier, physically, and emotionally. Other girls that don’t play sports are less likely to use of drugs. In addition, she notes a former Stanford University basketball player Mariah says, strength and independence of things girls learn from sports, the opportunities that are changing women.
“Those who believe college athletes should be paid argue that they are “employees”, as they commit just as much time, if not more, to their respective sports than the average person does with their job” (“Should College Athletes…”). 43.3 hours is about the time that an average college athlete spends on lifting and practicing for a sport, studying, finishing homework, and being in class (Deutsch). In fact, the average college football player gives up over three hours more than the average American works each week (“Should College Athletes…”). This demonstrates that athletes spend all their time training for their sport and do not have time for a
After graduating from High School one may choose to further his or her education through college. People do this for many reasons. Some people do it for professional benefits, while others do it for sports athletics. This paper will be focusing on those who do go to college for athletic benefits. Specifically, this is focusing on how these college athletes do not get paid and why they should be paid.
This pay difference can discourage the girls that want to become professional athletes. Thus, limiting the sports available for women to play and places to play in. Professional female athletes should be paid the same amount as professional male athletes because women should have equal representation and pay as the men, women are just as successful in sports as the men, and the best players are getting paid by foreign leagues to not
The articles show the gender inequalities between men and women and how media depiction continually emphasize gender stereotypes. I believe the media depicts women in sport negatively due to the gender stereotyping emphasized through the media which can be seen by the inferior depiction of female hockey players in the 2010
Figueroa’s framework Interpersonal Level of Figueroa’s framework explores the influence that interactions with others have on equity and opportunities to access physical activity. The interpersonal level is divided into five main sublevels, family, peers, teachers, coaches and role models. The aim of this investigation is to discuss whether I am effected by family, peers, teachers, coaches and role models on an interposal level or individual level. During this section of work I will be talking about how I am affected, when, why and where I am effected. Professor Peter Figueroa developed a set of 5 levels to investigate the issues surrounding access, equity and equality in sport and physical activity.
"Fair play: should college athletes get paid?" Junior Scholastic/Current Events, 9 Dec. 2013, p. 15 +. Student Edition, Accessed 13 Mar. 2017. Isidore, Chris, and Tami Luhby. "
The most clear evidence of the inequality between women and men hockey players refers back to the resources provided to a ‘quality’ career and training, which is clearly portrayed by money. In the Women’s Hockey League, a mere budget of 1.8 million dollars is set. When compared to a man’s salary in the Hockey League, it is equivalent to a year salary for that player. This concludes that the budget that runs a female league is less to a man’s annual salary, and for the men it can got up to a couple of million dollars every year. Arguably, women have as much success as men, especially during the Olympics.
Women athletes and women workers do not get the recognition they deserve. Men especially, look down upon women when it comes to their appearances, their knowledge and a women's physical and mental strength. In certain cases, a woman loses out on a job in the sports industry because she is exactly a woman. A male trainer can refuse to train women because of the parts her body has. Men and women have grown up in a world with the mindset that women know less than men when it comes to sports.
Women in sports can compete the same, and sometimes even stronger, as men so their pay should just be as much as them, and the gender pay gap shouldn’t be present. If both sexes play the exact same sport, why do they have different fiscal values? Many female athletes are equally talented compared to men so they should at least get paid the same. “The U.S. women’s team will get a $2 million bonus for winning the FIFA Women 's World Cup. A lot of money to you and me, yes.
However, some could say that wage equality is a bad thing because it will cost too much. Women athletes should be paid the same as men athletes. If women are paid the same they will be treated the same. “The International Cricket Council funded all the men's teams to fly business class but, only paid for the women’s teams to fly economy class”(Wigmore).
Gender equality: the pinnacle concept that American society is not-so desperately trying to achieve. Many Americans have convinced themselves that gender equality was remedied by the Nineteenth Amendment and the Second Feminist Movement, and have not considered the thousands of steps that are left on the journey. In recent years, a matter of public interest has been the gender wage gap, stating that women are earning significantly less money than men for doing an equivalent amount of work. Critics of the effort to “break the glass ceiling” claim that a pay gap does not exist, and that if it does, it is because women either do not work as hard, have to tend to their families, or hold lower paying jobs. However, the gender pay gap has been proven to exist in a variety of different forms,
“ No person… shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination” ( Wong). Within sports, many females get discriminated due to being “weak” or less interesting to watch. Some get less pay for having not equal amounts of participation as men do. The main issues are whether or not females and men should receive equal pay grade and whether if one does not participate as much which should they get the same attention. Equal pay grade may determine whether females play just as much as men and participate.
Gender Inequality in sports is an issue as old as sport itself. I choose this topic because we as a society seem to sweep it under the rug time after time. Women in sports however, try to address the issue only to have it go on deaf ears, leaving them to continue in the sport hoping something will change. Over the last few decades, strides have been made, but he sport remains an institution dominated by men. These women, whether they are in sport or in the business world, want a fair chance to be on the same level as their male counterparts.