While reviewing a recent article, it was interesting to note the difference between salary caps in the NBA and WNBA. The cap for the WNBA $82,000, the cap for the NBA, 57M. It is clear by these figures that there is a great disparity with regards to equal pay when it comes to women and sexism in sports.
It will be interesting to see how the players react to being coached by a woman when it comes to the new Assistant Coach of the Spurs. Things can go either way depending on the team and how the season progresses, and what happens at the end of the contact. Still, it is progress when it comes to women making an impact on areas which have most often been controlled by men.
While the article is based on players salaries and caps, there is no information as to what others in the field are earning. Most likely because most do not want to know the difference between the pay of men compared to women. For, regardless of a history with the NBA, women in general are going to still less make than male counterparts.
Two areas in which teams are still mostly masculine compared to other sports in which the broadcasters and players seem to have soften over the years are hockey and football. Whether due to risk of injury, or denial based on sex, these two sports are often quite brutal compared to baseball, basketball and others.
Currently in the United States, girls can play in sports at the middle and high school level at a number of schools which are receiving federal funding for various programs. Although, it is not doubt that it takes a brave young lady to get onto the field with a team of mostly all other male players. Even if injury is not intentional, girls often have a greater risk of injury than do the boys on the team.
Whether girls on the team, or otherwise, the mere decision to join could also provoke bullying in some instances. While playing on a team may be fun, it is important to realize these possibilities ahead of time so that one can take action if such a situation were to arise. At the very least, knowing whom to talk to if and when this were to happen is essential not only to the success of the individual but the team.
Another area in which women in sports are overlooked is in relation to sponsors. Generally, while a player gets a great deal of money for wearing a brand, or promoting an event, it is quite a large sum. It is no doubt that the same issues relate to sponsors as well as those in upper echelons of the sporting world. Sponsors which work on a commission oriented basis with both sexes often do pay players a commission that is the same across the board.
While women have come along way, there is still more work to be done towards true equality in the areas of equal pay for equal work, or in this case equal coaching. There is no record of what the new coach is making with the Spurs, one can only hope that the coach is making pay equal to that of other coaches on the team. Something that will eventually be revealed, if not, it would behoove the coach and others to stand up in protest and demand equality where equality is due.
It will be interesting to see how the players react to being coached by a woman when it comes to the new Assistant Coach of the Spurs. Things can go either way depending on the team and how the season progresses, and what happens at the end of the contact. Still, it is progress when it comes to women making an impact on areas which have most often been controlled by men.
While the article is based on players salaries and caps, there is no information as to what others in the field are earning. Most likely because most do not want to know the difference between the pay of men compared to women. For, regardless of a history with the NBA, women in general are going to still less make than male counterparts.
Two areas in which teams are still mostly masculine compared to other sports in which the broadcasters and players seem to have soften over the years are hockey and football. Whether due to risk of injury, or denial based on sex, these two sports are often quite brutal compared to baseball, basketball and others.
Currently in the United States, girls can play in sports at the middle and high school level at a number of schools which are receiving federal funding for various programs. Although, it is not doubt that it takes a brave young lady to get onto the field with a team of mostly all other male players. Even if injury is not intentional, girls often have a greater risk of injury than do the boys on the team.
Whether girls on the team, or otherwise, the mere decision to join could also provoke bullying in some instances. While playing on a team may be fun, it is important to realize these possibilities ahead of time so that one can take action if such a situation were to arise. At the very least, knowing whom to talk to if and when this were to happen is essential not only to the success of the individual but the team.
Another area in which women in sports are overlooked is in relation to sponsors. Generally, while a player gets a great deal of money for wearing a brand, or promoting an event, it is quite a large sum. It is no doubt that the same issues relate to sponsors as well as those in upper echelons of the sporting world. Sponsors which work on a commission oriented basis with both sexes often do pay players a commission that is the same across the board.
While women have come along way, there is still more work to be done towards true equality in the areas of equal pay for equal work, or in this case equal coaching. There is no record of what the new coach is making with the Spurs, one can only hope that the coach is making pay equal to that of other coaches on the team. Something that will eventually be revealed, if not, it would behoove the coach and others to stand up in protest and demand equality where equality is due.
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