Blog 3

Today I want to talk about the men and women's USA Soccer teams and how the women are paid significantly less even though they are wildly more successful.  The women's team is a top contender for the gold cup and olympics every year those respected tournaments come around. Watching a documentary on tv I discovered that the women average under $50,000 per year when the men make over $300,000 on average.  During these major tournaments the mens and women's game are both mostly sold out, meaning they should see around the same income. The women also easily qualify for the world cup every year where the men sometimes do not, like this coming tournament.

It is crazy to me that the men get paid so much more when the women have been winners for so long and the men can barley qualify for most tournaments. In my opinion it is not even like the men are more exciting to watch then the women because soccer is soccer, every game has its moments but they all tend to be pretty boring. I believe the next fight for title IX is for equal pay among men and women. I believe people should be paid what they bring in. So if the men and women generate the same amount of fans and ticket purchases they should be paid equal.  Also sense the women play in more tournaments they have more games, and each of those are nationally televised bring the club a lot of money. If the women bring in more money through televised games I wonder where that money is going.