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Section: Factors -- Economic Return: In a study that analyzed over 460 occupations, athletes have the worst gender pay gap. The average female athlete makes $15,232 in comparison to male athletes who make $38,008 on average, a 149.5% increase

Section: Media Coverage: In a study published in the Journal of Developmental Psychology, after viewing sexualized athletes, both girls and young women criticized the status of women in society, suggesting that more performance imagery of female athletes should be included in media coverage.

Section: Media Coverage: In addition to being featured less frequently than men in the media, female athletes are also subject to far more criticism. A qualitative analysis established that tweets in sports media tend to underscore female athletes’ achievements and exaggerate their losses.

Section: Media Coverage: Considering sports broadcasting, women are breaking into the industry into large numbers even though gender-based stereotypes serve as a roadblock to their career advancement. In an experimental design study, a number of U.S. executives concluded that women are not accepted as sports analysts by general sports audiences and that women should solely commentate on gender-appropriate (feminine) sports.

Section: Statistics -- Golf: In golf, the average salary for a golfer in the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) is $973,000 versus $162,000 for a player in the Ladies’ Professional Golfers' Association (LPGA), demonstrating that women in professional golf make 16.6% of what male golfers make annually.

Section: Statistics -- Tennis: In tennis, Venus Williams advocated for equal prize money to be awarded to female athletes in the most high-stakes tournaments. After 9 years of addressing the pay gap in prize money through leveraging her celebrity status, Wimbledon finally gave both male and female singles' winners the same amount.

Section: Statistics -- Basketball: The gender pay gap continues to affect all female professional athletes in almost all sports. Considering basketball, the maximum salary for a Women’s National Basketball Player (WNBA) player is $111,500 whereas for the National Basketball Association (NBA), the minimum salary is $525,093. Further, the average salary in the NBA is $4,500,000 and the average salary in the WNBA is $72,000.

Section: Statistics -- Sports Industry: Despite the growth of women participating in sports, especially after the passing of Title IX, black women have not been able to benefit as much as white women. While female athletes still face more discrimination in comparison to male athletes, larger inequities due to being black and a woman have been left out of the Title IX discussion, exemplifying a dual invisibility for black female athletes. This remains an issue at both predominantly white institutions and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

Section: Introducing regulations and eligibility: This phenomenon has profound implications for an athlete’s education. Considering NCAA athletics, female athletes are statistically among the highest achievers in all of postsecondary education while male athletes are doing just fine. But at the highest levels of football and men's basketball, much of the public believes that these athletes are on their way to the NFL or NBA. So, their academic advisers discover the simplest ways, at any cost, to keep them winning on the field.

Section: Statistics -- Surfing: Professional surfing remains currently organized globally by the World Surf League (WSL), the governing body that took over from the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) in 2014. The WSL, in addition to the ASP, has faced criticism for its focus on the male surfer. At the highest level of the sport, there are 18 spots for women versus 36 for men, a gender imbalance that can be observed in major qualifiers worldwide. Similar to other professional sports, debate has arisen around distributing equal prize money. In 2016, initiatives to address the gender pay gap in surfing, and the women’s purse and earnings increased significantly. Under this new rule, the men’s purse is $551,000 USD (split between 36 surfers), and the women’s purse is $275,500 USD (divided among 18 surfers).

Section: Statistics -- Baseball/Softball: After a 12-year hiatus, baseball and softball returned to the Olympics. The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the governing body for both sports, led the effort to secure the reinstatement. The WBSC provides a unique model in that one federation manages two very different sports. The work of the WBSC has become complicated by the prevailing cultural beliefs that deem baseball as male and softball as female. The global governance of baseball and softball under the WBSC might risk upholding long-standing gender stereotypes.