Equal Pay for Equal Play: Closing the Gender Wage Gap in Athletics

Editorials News | Feb-25-2024

Equal Pay for Equal Play: Closing the Gender Wage Gap in Athletics

Today we are discussing the topic of equal payment for athletes whether it is men or women one should get an equal amount as a wage.

Equal wage for equal game is about making sure that everyone is getting the same wage as equal in a sport whether it is a man or woman. We can see that in some sports male athletes are getting more and female athletes are getting as compared to male wages and we can also see the opposite that females get paid more and men get paid less. The wage gap between male wage and female wage when we compared. Such a gap is called the gender wage gap. It’s not fair because everyone is working very hard to win each game and they feel that they don’t have much value.; so they should get paid equally.

When we try to close the gender wage gap it means that female athletes get paid equally as main athletes. it means that they should play in the same league, and compete in the same tournament and at the same level, etc.

The main reason of female get lower wages because we know that most people like to see men's sports is why they get big sponsorships and large ticket sales but when we compare it with female sports we can see that there are big changes that fewer viewers and most of the companies are not ready to give sponsorship and less ticket selling.

The way to solve this is simple first we need to spread the gender wage gap awareness to all athletes and people and also teach the people about this situation. The second thing is trying to attend most of the female sports and support them with their merchandise and so on. third way is to encourage the sponsors to invest money in female athletes or their sports teams. the fourth way is the give more advertisements about female sports and do more campaign

There are many good things about closing the gender wage gap. When female athletes are more valued and get paid equally. This will send powerful information about gender equality and the young girls get more interested in becoming athletes and it increase the country's winnings in sports.

Conclusion
From all of this, we can understand that closing the gender gap is very important to increase the fairness between athletes and promoting gender equality and it also helps to increase the coming of younger athletes to athletics. Mainly it will raise women's level in our world to a higher position.

By : AMAN MUHAMMED KC
NAVABHARATH CENTRAL SCHOOL

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