User:JordanJ29

Thank you for visiting my page. My name is Jordanj29 and I was born in Everett Washington, November 2nd 1993. I Work in log home restoration as Forman leading the chinking and finishing crew and have been doing so for about 4 years. I'm a dirt biker, snowboarder and rock climber as I have always been the kid and man to seek adrenalizing activities. There is something about sketchy activities that drive my curiosity to push my boundaries what I can accomplish. Dirtbiking and snowboarding are my main hobbies as I have been riding both for 20 years. Now instead of racing bikes I take my time and do hard enduro riding which is single track trails riding up mountains or forest like areas.

I chose to do my article on the gender pay gap between men and women's sports. I have loved sports, and have played them my whole life with baseball being my favorite. I visited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_sports article on Wikipedia and found three aspects on it worth commenting on: Media Coverage, Economic Return, and female athlete's actions specifically tennis.

There is a study that researched hundreds of occupations in 2019 of economic return that came to the conclusion that professional sports has the worst gender pay gap. Its an average of 149.5% increase in women to men's pay. looking closely at the WNBA and NBA, economic elements affect the pay as the amount of attendees that come to watch the games. Ticket sales between NBA and WNBA differ with a gap of more than 10,000 patrons which is bad for the WNBA players as it generates less revenue.

Media coverage is another big factor that helps all athletes out that can help increase revenue. Womens sports lack in media coverage significantly in comparison to men's sports. With the help of media coverage in terms of TV presence is starting to increase as sports outlets are covering more female games like the WNBA which will help increase revenue to help get womens basketball players to receive higher payouts. A huge thing that has slowed the progression of womens sports is the fact that articles are sexualizing women instead of focusing on the talent so people/fans are seeing them as more in an inappropriate light than their professional attributes to the sport.

Out of all the women's sports tennis stands out having athletes that have made a powerful impact in  bridging the gap in the gender gap dilemma. The player who started it all, Billie Jean King. Tennis was appointed the leader in pay equity in all sports. Billi Jean King has made astounding efforts that led to the prize change in the United States Open in 1973. Flash forward to the early 2000's, Serena Williams had a long 9 years of fighting to get equal prize money in all the high stakes tournaments for single competitors. in turn an article in 2018 a list of the top ten female athletes showed that they were all tennis players. in 2019, Serena Williams is on the list of highest paid athletes at number 63 as the highest paid women's athlete!

In conclusion, women's sports has had a lack of positive media presence and as the tides are turning hopefully we will be able to see an increase of equal pay across the board. Having a voice to be heard might also help get things changed as it will help bring a light to each sport individually creating more fan bases and in turn prompting more fans to attend events influencing revenue to flow to stadiums.