NBA Players Get Paid More Than WNBA Players. Discrimination and Inequality is Still An Issue In The US When It Comes To Professional Sports.

An invisible narrative I find interesting in today’s present world is that, women and men do not get paid the same for playing the same sport. Gender inequity is a big issue that should be solved and fixed. How is it possible to live in the U.S.A., where this is suppose to be a free country and a country of equality for both men and women. Yet there is so much discrimination and inequity against women in this country.  For a WNBA player in 2005 the minimum salary was $31,200, and the maximum salary was $89,000. While in the NBA the minimum salary players received was $385,277, and the maximum salary was $15,355 million during the same season in 2005. Which if you ask anyone, is way too damn much. How is it possible such inequity exists in America, but there should be equality for both genders yet it is simply not the case.

It seems that “We as Americans don’t value our women like we should, and therefore they are treated like mere objects due to discrimination”. Women are just as capable of doing anything a man can do. Just like playing professional sports women become professional athletes like some men do, but they do not get the same salaries that men do. Even if women didn’t get paid the same as men do there really would be no problem if the gap between salaries wasn’t so big like it is. In the PGA tour the total prize money a professional male golf player wins is $256 million, and in the LPGA tour a professional female golf player can only win up to $50 million. Which is not even half of what the man who wins the PGA tour takes home. The gap between men and women just seems to simply get greater apart. Only showing increase in gender discrimination and inequity towards women.

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We as people hardly see or think about the reality about inequality in professional sports. I mean think about it what do the average Americans want to watch on Television when it comes to watching sports. I know you might say football, baseball, basketball, and soccer. But you have to realize that it does not matter what sport you might see on television it will most likely be professional men teams. This is simply, because even on television women professional sports do not get put on T.V. like the professional male sports. So people are so used to watching male sports that they forget there are women sports. It is not the fault of the people, but the media that doesn’t put live women sports on television as often as the men sports. This discrimination also is shown when advertisements of sport brands or sport products come on T.V. it is rare to see a woman on a sport advertisement, it is most likely you will see Lebron James or Kobe Bryant on the advertisement rather than Tamika Catchings. Male dominance is seem way too much in the U.S., which is ridiculous and a serious matter. A way to fix the problem of male dominance in sports can be to advertise women athletes more, when I say more I mean enough to the point where you can walk in a bar or restaurant and hear people debating about who the current best women professional basketball player is. People would value and care more about women professional sports if they were advertised as much as men sports are.  "Just think about it".