Gender Inequality : Professional Basketball

“An average WNBA athlete makes an average of 72,000 dollars a year.”("Gender, 2014”) That’s no money compared to what an NBA athlete makes a year. Popularity can be a big factor in the athletes pay for the women because less people attend a women’s game and they can’t really afford to pay the women. Is gender really a factor in this situation or is it popularity? “The WNBA itself makes on average one million dollars a year.” ("Gender, 2014”) What is the difference between a female athlete and a male athlete? The difference is popularity. More people attend a NBA game then a WNBA, so therefore more money will be

Just like racial discrimination existing in basketball for 60 years, women weren’t allowed in the NBA at all because men thought that women weren’t good enough to play in the leagues. All of that changed on April 14, 1996, when women got so mad at the NBA that they made a whole new basketball association for them. It was called the Womens Nation Basketball Association, or the WNBA.

As a future women’s basketball coach, it is important to understand the ins and outs of Title IX, and furthermore it is important to understand women’s basketball’s place in the history of Title IX. As a female sporting opportunity, Title IX is at its core supposed to equate these opportunities with those of male sporting opportunities.

The University of Connecticut women’s basketball is arguably one of the most dominant programs in college sports. The big criticism of women’s basketball is a lack of consistency. Uconn has been an unstoppable force for the last fifteen years, which could be a main reason why it receives so much judgement. After winning their fourth straight national title in the 2015-16 season, the amount of criticism has never been higher. With Uconn being so dominant in recent years, many people feel that their dominance is ruining the women's game, even Boston Globe columnist, Dan Shaughnessy commented on the team, causing the team and staff to fight back with comparisons and opinions of their own.

Basketball being the third most rated sports in views in the United States, has some of the highest paid athletes as well, well for men in this case. Most women's teams maximum wage is less than the men’s minimal wage per game. “Similar forces are at work in professional basketball in the U.S: last season, the maximum salary for a female player

The data tables included in this paper were self-constructed. The data was collected from personal research of different areas in the athletic field of interest, specifically in basketball. Interdisciplinary approaches included were history, economics, and psychology. The history involved included the background and the initial reason for the creation of this law. This essay provides examples of women and their experience indirectly and directly tied to the law. It compares using some statistical data the economics of money spent of male compared to females. It also brings in the media’s appeal for male athletics because of the revenue they bring in. This essay also includes examples

Basketball is one of the most popular sports played and watched nationwide and global. Shooting, dribbling, crossing someone up, and even dunking has caught the eye of many people around the world. Many basketball players start at young age playing at a local recreation or YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) to build their skills and IQ of the game. This sport also consists of two genders: male and female. One of the top associations in American sports today is The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Women’s Basketball Association (WNBA). The association of women’s basketball and men’s basketball is almost equivalent. This essay will analyze the differences and similarities of the two sports and associations. The following differences and similarities will be analyzed throughout the essay: rules, monetary differences, and gender.

With my degree, organizational behavior helps me with predicating human behavior at work, and the perspective needed to manage individuals from diverse background. One of my long career dreams is to end up working for a major league team somewhere on the sport management side. One major change that is happening the NBA is that the league is starting to give re to the female who understand the game. Roughly five years ago, many people laugh at the idea of a lady as a referee or sitting with a coach staff. Now the league has respected the

The pay difference between male and female athletes is astronomical even though they are both working equally as hard for their achievements. This is evident in professional basketball in the USA. For example, Lebron James a player in the NBA is paid $33.3 million in 2017 (Gaines, 2018) not including any sponsorship deals whereas in the WNBA (Woman’s professional basketball league) all 157 players make a combined earning of $11.7 million dollars. (Berri, 2017).

First of all, the authors of this article noticed that there are differences between different gender coaches’ salaries in college basketball. The researchers in this article performed an experiment where they have included salaries of basketball coaches in 2004-2005 season. Even though coaches of different gender are not paid equally, but looking into the facts this cannot be treated as a discrimination. Brook and Foster included in their formula factors such as: revenue brought to the University, sold tickets, coaching experience, winning percentage and so on. After the calculations, there was no significant difference found in 2004-2005 season salaries for male and female basketball coaches. In

Gender is not a control variable in the proposed study, as the purpose is to explore the role of euphoria rather than gender. Nonetheless, the fact that men, and in particular young men, are the riskiest financial decision-makers provides a helpful background context to any study of NBA players’ financial decision-making. NBA players are even more likely to possess the kinds of hormonal characteristics that underlie men’s riskier financial decision-making in Powell and Ansic’s model.

One of the parts of the debate that I found the most effective would be the part that talk about the gender equality benefits such as decrease the high drop out rate, empower loves, health, quality of services, and positive guidance and role models for opposite sex. I also like the part of the debate where the presentations states the reasons for the gap in gender equality in college sports, which it talks about how many men are getting the coaching jobs and women are getting away from high level of authority positions to assistant positions.

Men’s college basketball teams are able to be transported on planes and dine on steak, while a women’s team from the same college, travels in a van and eats fast food? It’s not fair, but this occurs often nowadays even with laws passed preventing this type of discrimination. Today there are some problems in high schools that give a disadvantage to the girls such as, insufficient scholarships for girls, not enough coaching

The first official game was created by Doctor James Naismith for the YMCA to keep the young men occupied during the winter months. In the late 1890s the first men’s National Basketball League was formed comprised of 6 different teams. In the early 1900s a few colleges began to sponsor men’s basketball games. Women’s basketball was first organized a year after the game was created, by Senda Berenson at Smith College with rules specifically geared for female players. (quote) The journey of women’s basketball was equipped with much success as well as failures. While the first women’s collegiate game was played in 1893 by 1899 women’s intercollegiate basketball competition was banned at other universities. It wasn’t until almost 100 years and a couple of failed attempts, after the first NBA league was formed that the Women’s National Basketball league was established. Today there consist of 30 teams in the NBA and a total of 12 teams in the WNBA. Through the history of sports and society, like many other sports basketball has been socially constructed as a masculine

In tradition, the man is the breadwinner of the family; while this has changed, men still dominate many career paths. Once upon a time, only men were allowed to play sports in high school. This had drastically changed, due to Title IX, a law that provided opportunities to different career paths (“Mythbusting”). But, on a professional sport level, women are not seen playing in the NFL or the NBA. Women have their own leagues, like the Women’s Basketball Association. There are blended sports, but, for the most part, men and women are separate. The main argument is that women are not as physically able as men and therefore, they should not compete with men. People see this separation as fair; but, this gender separation will lead to men controlling the sports world (Faulmueller 1-2). However, the amount of women in professional coaching careers is diminutive. A mere two to three percent of male teams are coached by females and in women’s sports, the amount of female coaches has plummeted forty-two percent; female coaches already earn less than their counterparts and many are now struggling to find new careers (Waldron 2.”Facts” 40). Another career path where women are poorly represented is the military. The 1994 Direct Ground