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Roger, to be honest I have very little argument with your take on this topic other than you put a little more weight on the gap being gender
based than I do. I concede the 100 years comment. Bring it down to 15 years. Revenue differences are vast for any time period other than the short range they selected. And, they will be again once the men again experience some success. I read in 2 separate articles that the women are paid a salary regardless of games played and the men are not. It's a nice guarantee, but not substantial. Yes, the men are still paid for games played.
My main argument is with the original post that was not yours. It infers that the US men make 6 times the women based on gender. They didn't because the men did not experience the same success. If they did, the revenues generated would be astronomically higher. My point is that any inequity that exists is almost, if not all, economics based and not gender based. If the courts find that 90% is economics and 10% is gender, that's fine, but I'd be shocked if it's more than that.
As to comparing yours and my work to professional athletes, the point is that there are loads of examples of non-equal pay for equal work that are not gender or racially based. Yes, I believe there are invidual examples that bias is a factor, and they should be addressed. A better example than you and I, is NBA D-league as mentioned, but also the Nike golf tour. Same work, same or more dedication, more sacrifices, more risk, but far less pay. Why? Because people buy tickets, buy products, and watch telecasts of Tiger Woods, Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, and Phil Mickelson. They don't for Nike tour tournaments. Economics, not gender or race.
It wouldn't bother me a bit if the women's salary goes up. It wouldn't bother me if the men's compensation came down. And it did. They didn't get paid $550,000, because they did not duplicate the women's success.
The US women’s team brought in slightly more revenue than the US men’s team over 2016-2018. Jun 29, 13:58
Men’s salary wasn’t zero, they played 11 games last year. It’s incorrect to say they weren’t paid. Jun 29, 22:00
It’s disingenuous to expand to a 100 year horizon when the women’s team has only been playing for ~35 years. Jun 30, 09:30
Roger, to be honest I have very little argument with your take on this topic other than you put a little more weight on the gap being gender Jun 30, 12:41
Why are there not coed teams? I truly don't understand why professional sports do not have mixed teams {nm} Jun 29, 19:50
Mixed doubles Tennis. {nm} Jun 30, 10:11