The women's NBA has been established for decades now and has had many bonafided superstars in that time. There season is half as long as the men's. The league has never turned a profit and is subsidised to the tune of US$50 million a year by the NBA, around the salary of a top male player. They play in the state of the art arenas provided by the mens franchises, they don't have to provide their own. They go through the same criticism every year about the disparity in pays between the men and women. Truth is, they don't have a league without the men's game.
Every sports league around the world has remunerated their professional participants to a level allowed by the amount of money the sport bought in through TV deals, sponsors and gate takings. Eyeballs on the sport is what sets the level of players pay. Our nrl players are the best in the world at what they do, but they earn in a year what top Premier League players earn in a week. I really can't wear the argument that women are underpaid compared to their male counterparts in the same sport when they just don't bring the money in. The eyeballs you can command on your sport is what governs what the players are remunerated. I don't mind massive sports commissions like the NBA and nrl subsidising women's sports at all, I just get annoyed by the calls of unfairness.
I have had this discussion about half a dozen times now since the announcing of the men's and women's Nrl Salary caps around how disproportionate they are. What has been common amongst every person complaining about what the women are paid is that none of them have been to a game. Most watched the gf as the first game they'd taken in. All of a sudden its how good is this? They deserve what the men get. I've been to the home games the girls have played, watched nearly every knights match since the girls came in. My closing argument has always been, if you want the girls to be better paid, watch the games. Get to them live. Then, sponsorship and TV rights take care of themselves. Otherwise, you can't create bigger salaries out if nothing.
Every sports league around the world has remunerated their professional participants to a level allowed by the amount of money the sport bought in through TV deals, sponsors and gate takings. Eyeballs on the sport is what sets the level of players pay. Our nrl players are the best in the world at what they do, but they earn in a year what top Premier League players earn in a week. I really can't wear the argument that women are underpaid compared to their male counterparts in the same sport when they just don't bring the money in. The eyeballs you can command on your sport is what governs what the players are remunerated. I don't mind massive sports commissions like the NBA and nrl subsidising women's sports at all, I just get annoyed by the calls of unfairness.
I have had this discussion about half a dozen times now since the announcing of the men's and women's Nrl Salary caps around how disproportionate they are. What has been common amongst every person complaining about what the women are paid is that none of them have been to a game. Most watched the gf as the first game they'd taken in. All of a sudden its how good is this? They deserve what the men get. I've been to the home games the girls have played, watched nearly every knights match since the girls came in. My closing argument has always been, if you want the girls to be better paid, watch the games. Get to them live. Then, sponsorship and TV rights take care of themselves. Otherwise, you can't create bigger salaries out if nothing.
