Sport & Women FC Barcelona

FC Barcelona has also a female soccer section since 2002. They have been the best team in Spain in the past few years.

However, the history of FCB women’s team dates back to 1970 and is characterized by decades of lack of recognition and fight for existence.

Sport & Women FC Barcelona

Sonia Bermúdez is the star player. She has been nicknamed “Lady Messi”

She makes a bit over 1000€ a month, 2222 times less than Messi.

Sport & WomenSpanish female

athletes

In London 2012 Spain conquered 17 Olympic medals: 11 female and 6 male.

Some of the most prestigious Spanish female athletes are:

Mireia Belmonte, swimmer. The handball national team. Synchronized swimming. Edurne Pasaban, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year 2011.

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario has been probably the best female athlete in the Spanish of Spain: 12 Grand Slam finals

Sport & WomenSoccer World

Cup

Sport & Women

The top countries in female soccer have little to do with male soccer.

Some of the best countries in female soccer are also the ones with more gender equality in their societies.

Canada will be hosting in June 2015 the next FIFA Soccer World Cup.

USA was the favorite team in 2011 but ended up defeated by underdog Japan.

Soccer World Cup

Sport & Women Participation

Women’s participation in sport has increased exponentially through the 20th Century.

In 1896, the first modern Olympic Games, no women competed.

Sport & Women Participation

Although women’s participation has increased, women still have little power when it comes to make executive decisions.

The International Olympic Committee has 16 executive members on its board. 12 are men and 4 women.

FIFA has a board of 26 members. 25 men and one single woman.

Women Men

Soccer (Spain) 10,000-12,000€ 129,000€ legal minimumMessi and Ronaldo: 50M€

Basketball (USA) $105,000 maximum salary

$507,336 minimum salaryKobe Bryant: $30.5 million

Sport salaries for Women and Men in 2014

Name Earnings $ Sport

Maria Sharapova 24.4 Tennis

Serena Williams 23.6 Tennis

Li Na 22 Tennis

Kim Yuna 16.3 Figure Skating

Danica Patrick 15 Auto Racing

Victoria Azarenka 11.1 Tennis

Caroline Wozniacki 10.8 Tennis

Agnieszka Radwanska 6.8 Tennis

Ana Ivanovic 6.4 Tennis

Paula Creamer 5.5 Golf

10 Highest-paid sportswomen in 2014

Should female athletes be paid the same as male athletes?

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work Men perform better than women. They run faster, hit heavier, jump higher…

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work

Underneath it all we can see sexual discrimination and men running the destinies of sportswomen

Men perform better than women. They run faster, hit heavier, jump higher…

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work

Underneath it all we can see sexual discrimination and men running the destinies of sportswomen

Men perform better than women. They run faster, hit heavier, jump higher…

Many times women run less distance, their games are shorter and the number of sets they play is smaller

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work

Underneath it all we can see sexual discrimination and men running the destinies of sportswomen

Can you imagine a woman being a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer and making less money than a man?

Men perform better than women. They run faster, hit heavier, jump higher…

Many times women run less distance, their games are shorter and the number of sets they play is smaller

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work

Underneath it all we can see sexual discrimination and men running the destinies of sportswomen

Can you imagine a woman being a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer and making less money than a man?

Men perform better than women. They run faster, hit heavier, jump higher…

Many times women run less distance, their games are shorter and the number of sets they play is smaller

It is not about performance, it is about the money women and men are able to attract.

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work

Underneath it all we can see sexual discrimination and men running the destinies of sportswomen

Can you imagine a woman being a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer and making less money than a man?

Well then, let’s cut men’s salaries to make them equal to women’s

Men perform better than women. They run faster, hit heavier, jump higher…

Many times women run less distance, their games are shorter and the number of sets they play is smaller

It is not about performance, it is about the money women and men are able to attract.

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work

Underneath it all we can see sexual discrimination and men running the destinies of sportswomen

Can you imagine a woman being a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer and making less money than a man?

Well then, let’s cut men’s salaries to make them equal to women’s

Men perform better than women. They run faster, hit heavier, jump higher…

Many times women run less distance, their games are shorter and the number of sets they play is smaller

It is not about performance, it is about the money women and men are able to attract.

Is Kobe or Messi’s salary fair to begin with?

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work

Underneath it all we can see sexual discrimination and men running the destinies of sportswomen

Can you imagine a woman being a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer and making less money than a man?

Well then, let’s cut men’s salaries to make them equal to women’s

If the media would pay more attention to women sports fans will be more interested and spend more money on it

Men perform better than women. They run faster, hit heavier, jump higher…

Many times women run less distance, their games are shorter and the number of sets they play is smaller

It is not about performance, it is about the money women and men are able to attract.

Is Kobe or Messi’s salary fair to begin with?

Sport & Women Salaries

Some points in favor and against equal salary distribution between men and women:

Yes No

Equal pay for equal work

Underneath it all we can see sexual discrimination and men running the destinies of sportswomen

Can you imagine a woman being a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer and making less money than a man?

Well then, let’s cut men’s salaries to make them equal to women’s

If the media would pay more attention to women sports fans will be more interested and spend more money on it

Men perform better than women. They run faster, hit heavier, jump higher…

Many times women run less distance, their games are shorter and the number of sets they play is smaller

It is not about performance, it is about the money women and men are able to attract.

Is Kobe or Messi’s salary fair to begin with?

Pro sport salaries have nothing to do with fairness or unfairness. It’s just market and competition setting the price.

Sport & Women Muslim women

Afghanistan sent women to the Olympics for the first time in Athens 2004. They received death threats.

One of the girls got "daily taunts from her more conservative neighbors, vicious rumors about her character, and even death threats from extremists."

Sport & Women Muslim women

Women in some Muslim countries have begun to compete in international competitions in recent years; however, they still face restrictions in their access to sport.

In 2012 Saudi Arabia sent two female athletes to the Olympic Games for the first time in the country’s history. It was the last nation along with Qatar and Brunei to prohibit women to participate.

Sport & Women Muslim women

Most of these women do not have the means and the preparation to compete so they usually are disqualified in the first rounds or end up injured.

Their participation is often symbolic but these women serve as role models for their communities.

Sport & Women

In 2010 Inés Sainz, a television reporter covering the NFL, claimed that she had been sexually harassed in the locker room by some New York Jets players and coaches.

The media controversy revolved around these two facts:

1. Inés Sainz as a woman has all the right to dress as she pleases.

2. Boys will be boys and you can’t get into a locker room like that and expect nothing to happen.

1.Women in

sports media

Sport & Women

Andy Murray has been the first elite male player to appoint a female coach with no familial bonds.

Aside from the complete absence of female coaches in men’s tennis, when Murray hired Mauresmo in June 2014 there was only one top 50 player on the women’s tour who was coached by a woman.

2. Women in male

sports

Sport & Women

In Spain, in 2014 Gala León became the national tennis team’s new manager.

Spanish players boycotted her appointment. They point out that she had no previous experience in the men’s tennis tour and none of the players knew her before.

2. Women in male

sports

Sport & Women

In 2013 Ruben Castro, Spanish soccer player, was accused by his fiancé of domestic violence on 4 different occasions.

In December 2014 the judge ruling the case admitted some of the charges and the player is pending trial.

In February 2015 his team’s fans chanted this song in a soccer match:

“go Ruben Castrogo Ruben CastroIt wasn’t your faultshe was a b**chyou did good”

3. Domestic violence

Sport & Women

Is cheerleading sexist?

"Cheerleading has a long tradition in the majority of American sports at both professional and amateur levels. Cheerleaders are part of American football culture from youth leagues to the NFL and are part of the game day experience for our fans.”

NFL head of communications David Tossell

4. Sexism

Sport & Women

Is cheerleading sexist?

"When the whole essence of your job is basically hanging out in a tiny bikini and a bandeau top, it kind of undercuts the rest of your argument that you are a well-rounded person,”

Joanne Gerstner, Professor of media & sports at the University of Michigan.

*Miami Dolphins **parody

4. Sexism

Sport & Women

“Flower jar” women

In many sports women are used as ornaments , as part of the prize for the winners

4. Sexism

Sport & Women

Beach volleyball in bikini

In 2012 the governing body of beach volleyball changed their regulation allowing women to wear shorts and t-shirt with sleeves.

Before that bikinis were the only permitted uniform

4. Sexism

Sport & Women

Beach volleyball in bikini

USA team member Jen Kessy responded to the new regulation:

“We're not uncomfortable in our bikinis. Growing up in southern California, that's what you wear from when you're a little kid to now in the summertime”

4. Sexism

Sport & Women

Female tennis and physical appearance

Simona Halep is world’s number 3 in 2015.

In 2010 when she was 18 she reduced her breast to improve her tennis. Media have not change the topic of conversation since.

4. Sexism