Fair point. In this respect, I agree (sorta). Gender equality can't exist in most sports because of the physical difference between men and women, but women should be paid a living wage. If men's football generates more money, then I do think they should get paid more. They get more money after all.
It frustrates me so much that people think that female footballers should get the same pay as men.
Why are we turning a popularity issue into an equaliy issue?
No, The women’s world cup winners don’t deserve the same prize money as men world cup winners. Why should they? Men’s world cup 2018 generated $5,279,000,000 more than the 2019 women’s world cup and that number will probably increase depending that the 2022 mens world cup generated 7.5 billion.
But yeah, gender equality!!!!!
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Also women going into football is not really a “social” factor - they just aren’t as interested as physical sports than men, since well, football is a physical sport.
In the UK the men and women get the same opportunities in football in schools, but I’ve seen firsthand that girls choose not to use them.
I have the biggest respect for women’s football but it’s popularity, not gender, and that how much work they do isn’t a factor for how much they get payed - it’s how much they make.
it’s the same you can’t expect volleyball players to pay earn the same as footballers, since they generate much less interest than football.
It IS a social factor, which you can see by the fact that the FA banned women from competing in sports for 50 years, while men had the opportunity to see, learn, and compete during that entire time. Then, when they are finally allowed to play, it’s going to take time for the continuing pressures against Women in sports to wear off. This combined with the social pressures working against young women by lack of school/family encouragement, coaching, and representation leads to a lack of participation. The other proof that it is a social issue is that as many of these barriers have been removed/lessened and young women can see more examples of how it’s possible for them to participate and suceed, the sport's popularity, participation, and quality improved. It's the same with women in medicine, science/STEM, as well as many other fields.
But I don’t have an interest in re-arguing over the same points/opinions I have shared with you in the past, so I will
I won’t reply anymore either since I’m not going to waste my time countering your points when I already have and when you’re just gonna go off and talk about the past, not addressing my points at all. Women getting the same pay as men in sports is one of the most illogical arguments ever.