Nop thats a stupid demand. Entertainment business is where sports also lie in majorly. Which means, the pay you make is directly connected with the amount of fame and popularity you have among the population.
If you have more viewers, companies will pay big money for their adverts and bid war on it. Thats how primarily games make money, then comes the telecom money side where other adverts are placed and talked about which means even more money.
The more companies involved the more money in circulation of the game. The more money in circulation the more you as players make.
Simply said, you dont have the fame or popularity as that of the male players in the same field to have as much of an impact with your games as they do. So in the end, they end up pooling more people in with their games than you do and hence makes more money per game.
So demanding more money to equal them is stupid cus, if their popularity rises again you'll get more money per game with not enough viewers or pooling of companies which is a loss to those involved.
No why would they take a loss knowingly?
Seems stupid to think that they'll just give out more cash to people whi don't make the same right.
I suggest campaigns and promotes with specific players, YouTube videos abd insta posts and pages of games and stuff. Make more clout and you make more audience, make more audiences and you get more companies involved, more involved means more money and ultimately more pay per player.
The only way I see that happening is if male athletes' salaries took a huge hit, rather than the other way around. The WNBA brings in a very small fraction as much money as the NBA, and that is by far the biggest factor. If you do that however, what happens to all that money? Probably pocketed by team owners, which would turn into another issue.
The NBA brings in around $8,000,000,000 a year.
The WNBA makes about $60,000,000 annually, which isn't even enough to cover its own costs.
The problem is that women don't support the WNBA the same way men support the NBA. The reason that this is true is because most women don't care about sports in general and most men don't care about women's sports. We care more about reality TV and soap operas. Only the tomboys really care about sports, including the WNBA, which they aren't abundant as the more feminine women. Because women aren't really supporting female sports, they don't generate enough revenue. If they can't generate the revenue, then they can't be paid equally. If the NBA does throw the WNBA some bones so that they can pay the female players equally, they would ultimately lose money in the process. Me personally, I definitely am not disrespecting the WNBA in any shape or form and I definitely respect female athletes, but I'm not interested in watching sports that much, especially female basketball.
Professional sports is all about fans and the larger that base is the more the players can demand in their paychecks.
Sadly women's sports can't seem to create a base like the men's version's with the exception of sand volleyball where the women are basically naked which gives them a pervy base as well.
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Firstly I'd like to address that I have never believed athlethes... even top athletes, deserve millions of dollars as they are. Even doctors who serves society by learning a valuable skill over years of knowledge gained in school, somehow make less than someone that is basically useless to society. If you play sports you should do it not because of the potential to make money, but because you love the game.
Going back to the actual question now, I don't understand why women should deserve equal pay. Men are physically more capable in most scenarios, especially when you compare top athletes. We are stronger and faster as a species. You pay someone for what they are capable of in any occupation, no? Who would you rather pay to see: The person who lifts 1000 lbs or the person lifting 900? How about someone running 100 metres in 9.5 seconds or someone running it in 10.5? A 1 second difference in 100m a HUGE difference. If the world worked in the sense that everyone got paid equal no matter their capabilities, then there would be no incentive to be better at anything.
Men are better at some things and women are better at some things. Women going into the sports as a career should go into it for their love of the game and not for the money. If they really wanted money, then go to school for a high paying job or start a business of their own. Everyone needs to come to terms with their own capabilities. I would never try to go professional in sports because I am just average in athleticism. There are people who are naturally more physically coordinated, stronger and faster. It's something that no amount of training can make up for. Am I crying about it? No.
No. And here's why.
Athletes don't get paid a fixed rate based on the job duties. It's not like you send in a CV and they say "we need xyz athletes and we'll pay [$$$] salary."
Athletes are paid based, roughly speaking, on how many "butts in seats" their performances are able to procure. So of course legends like Kobe Bryant or Mike Tyson in their prime are the biggest earners, because they put the most butts in seats. And fact is, the best of the best marquee athletes are almost always men. Women athletes, 99 times out of 100, need to compete within female-only leagues to be competitive. Of course a female boxer who's at the top of her game could probably knock out an amateur male boxer who can barely throw a hook. But put the best female boxers against the best male boxers, and I know who I'm putting my money on. Hence why the top 1% of male athletes probably make more than the bottom 50% of ALL athletes combined. (I'm pulling that stat out my ass, but it's basically just the pareto principle taken to its logical conclusion). When female boxers start giving Prime Mike Tyson or Prime Floyd Mayweather a run for their money, then they'll be compensated as such for all the butts in seats they'll generate.
Besides, athletes are grossly overpaid anyway, so I really couldn't care about their crocodile tears over wanting more money.
Do they draw the same crowds? If not then no, its that simple. Demand drives the pay, not the other way around. If they demand to be paid equal and they cannot generate the crowds, then they are going to push themselves out of their own industry.
Now one could argue that in order to generate those crowds they should have more money go into advertising their games, this probably won't work (advertising does not generate as much interest as people think), but its a far more reasonable start then saying they should be paid far more money then they generate (imagine you getting paid ten times the money you bring to the company, what will happen? You'll get fired and replaced with some one cheaper, its just a fact of life.).
It depends on the team. The women’s team that I definitely think should be paid more is the women’s national soccer team. I’m pretty sure they make more money than the men’s team, and they win more often, yet they still get paid less.
The other teams should probably get paid more as well. Not necessarily equal to the men’s teams, if they don’t make as much, but more than they’re making now. Because there is a tendency to pay women less just because they’re women.
And also, at a certain point the argument that they don’t make as much, and that that makes it okay, grows stale as well. How about the companies who run those teams start advertising them as much as they advertise the men’s games? Maybe then it would be a fair comparison. But they don’t.
As someone who coaches female (and male) athletes, I'm a big fan of women's athletics, but there simply isn't an economic case for "equal pay". The WNBA season isn't as long and generates only a small fraction of the NBA's revenues. Most WNBA players also play overseas during the WNBA offseason and a more realistic comparison would be to the salaries male basketball players make in Europe or Asia.
Now, if we're talking about similar revenue sharing to the NBA as percentage of league-wide revenues, the case for that is better and there may be scope for improvement there, but the much smaller revenue being spread out among fixed costs that may not be a similar ratio is going to be a problem there as well. The bigger the pie, the greater the opportunity for more revenue sharing.
Ill give you some numbers you probably didn't know:
NBA players split amongst themselves 9% of the total revenue of the league (that's sponsors, ticket sales, tv deal etc...)
WNBA players split 13%. So the reality is women are actually overpaid to play basketball in comparison the only reason the numbers look different is because the WNBA generates significantly less.
So equal pay would either have the men making more or women making less.
The fact is for once crying inequality and calling people misogynistic for disagreeing won't help. Because WNBA players cannot be paid money that doesn't exist.
The only solution is for them to step up there game put on a show worth watching and the audience will grow but as long as WNBA games are less interesting than middle school basketball fans will not rally based on principal alone.
Instead of demanding the NBA pay more, how about instead getting more women interested in sports?
Hell, why not develop a few games hat involves both NBA and WNBA teams in the same areas that depends on combined score averages, rather than complete separation? Meaning that for every game that Denver plays against Minnesota for example, the WNBA teams of the same do the same and the actual score is the combined average. It doesn't have to count for the actual season, but at least a few exhibition games in order to try to raise viewership, as NBA fans would be a lot more likely to watch WNBA games if it affected their NBA equivalent's standing.
Anything is possible - if there is the framework for it.
What these women don't understand is that sportsmen (yes, men) don't just get that pay check for being men. There are the sponsorships, followings, contracts, deals and everything else that has been built up over decades.
To simply turn up and demand what they are getting, Is not only laughable, but cringeworthy. It's like asking to be paid the same as the CEO because you've worked there for a few weeks.
Sure, the woman's game will build up over time and big followings, fans and sponsorships will come in eventually. But it's not really an equal pay issue as even in the male game, the top 20 males get paid more than nearly all the rest put together.
This is more of that feministic bullshit that men hate. Women don't get paid equal to men because they don't produce the same results that men do. The NBA generates a large amount of revenue per year, the players are superior in EVERY SINGLE WAY, and if I'm not mistaken, they had to lend money to the WNBA because they weren't drawing in crowds. When the WNBA makes enough money, generates enough interest, develop the same level of skill, they will get paid the same.
Until then, all this means is that they want equal pay on the account of being women. Which makes them very pathetic.
Equal pay? ridiculous.
First of all they don't have equal skills, not one of them would last a game or score a point in the NBA, and second of all they only have a fraction of the fans and interest and bring in tiny $ compared to the NBA.
No equal pay until the WNBA starts bring in equal money... which will be NEVER.
You should never get "equal pay for equal work." You should only get equal pay for equal RESULTS. Who cares how much work you put into something. It's what you PRODUCE that has the value not how hard you work. You don't produce the value, you shouldn't be paid as much as someone who does.
I support equality in mater of wages, however girls in specific sports don't have the audience and sponsors for equal pay.
As of now, its not possible because women don't draw as much attention as men's basketball. But like all great things, they must start from the beginning. Women's sport is new compared to men's so it will take time and effort for them to even become 1/3 of the men's team in terms of profit. The reason why is because all sport related games are base not on the players but how many people come to see them, what they buy and stuff. So in short till women draw as much attention as men, than they won't get equal pay
I think it's ridiculous. Their pay is based on revenue. WNBA doesn't have a large following like the NBA and that's mainly due to the fact that majority of women don't watch sports. Men are the largest supporters of sports and prefer to see other male athletes. WNBA is boring. I dont even watch it
The reason why the athletes in the NBA make more than those in the WNBA.
Is because of ratings. Their genders have nothing to do with why there’s a pay difference.
The NBA makes more revenue, so as a result. The pockets of the organization are deeper and filled with more cash to give to the players. That’s basic economics 101
It would depend.
The money brought in is far less then the Nba so i get why they dont.
But they aren't marketed properly either, as well as too many people see them as a joke, because many males egos doesn't want to believe women can be entertaining in sports.
Tbh i actually prefer watching women's college basketball and the WNBA more than men's. I think they play harder and more entertaining so it's possible but we are not ready as a society yet.
u They are all overpaid entertainers. If female basketball doesn't generate as much income as male basketball, why should they earn as much as the male athletes?
Supply and demand. Female tennis players make as much as male players so it’s on the WNBA to increase eyeballs and demand. https://www.insider.com/worlds-ten-highest-earning-tennis-earners-pre-tax-forbes-2020-10#4-naomi-osaka-374m-7
once popularity of the sport rivals that of male players of any sport they will recieve compensation that they seek until then they must focus on their love for the sport they play and in turn inspire the future generations to aspire to fufill that love for the sport.. if its about the money... just marry a rich man.. or expoite what other resources available to you. also remember women are far more capable than mere expoitation.. in ancient times there was as many female deities as males think about that... the force is ultimatly with us all
Impossible. And furthermore not even sensible. You could put the 5 greatest WNBA stars of all time on a court against an average mens highschool team and they would lose handidly.
Womens basketball is a disaster, with zero vertical play, slow lateral movement, and low shooting percentages (depsite smaller ball, lower rim, shorter 3pt line). Also the players aren't half as competitive as Ultra-Ego men because thats not in womens nature.
No reason to pretend otherwise, we live in the real world not the fake candyland the libtards pretend exists. Women have great skills at things that they should have, such as organization, and compromising. They are great (and the only ones) who can bear children. God made there bodies for that purpose. Mens bodies are designed for feats of athleticism and work. Embrace your genders role and be happier for it.
In order for WNBA players to be paid equally, the NBA would have to throw them HUGE subsidies from money paid by fans of the NBA. The fact is very few people care about the WNBA, so it raises very little money as a result. Few dollars from fans and few dollars from sponsors. That will always be the case because female sports are simply less interesting than male sports.
The irony in this, like so many other feminist causes, is that these feminist women want men to pay their way. They want men to financially support women. Think about that for a minute. This is today's feminism.
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