![]() ![]() Subscribe now and enjoy the convenience and savings of home delivery. (for sales to the general TO THE HERALD SUN AND LEADER COMMUNITY NEWS – Buy Search Sell – My Tributes Advertising enquiries (excluding Classifieds) Story Tips – a print or digital classified ad, funeral notice, obituary or tribute online: If you don’t have access or a log in to MyAccount, pleaseħ.00am to 11:30am (AEST) on weekends and national public holidays “They do it because I bring in the highest numbers.Click here for information about subscriptions & home delivery, using our websites or apps, and FAQs covering technical or general questions about our products and services. “ I’m the highest paid fighter not because Dana (White, UFC president) and Lorenzo (Fertitta, UFC CEO) wanted to do something nice for the ladies. “I think how much you get paid should have something to do with how much money you bring in,” she said. It’s clear that Rousey is no fan of feminist notions of equal pay irrespective of results. Ronda Rousey was the highest-paid fighter in the UFC because the fans loved her and paid to watch her fights. When female sports stars generate significant interest and sales, they do reap the economic benefits. In the modelling world, as in the sporting and entertainment sectors, you are compensated in accordance to the income you generate, not how many hours you put in or how hard you try or even how good you are. Indeed, many professional male models would be lucky to make in a year what a female model can make from a single endorsement. Top male models don’t earn anything near what Miranda Kerr and Gisele Bundchen take home. Do we have ridiculous reports demanding that male models be paid the same as their high-earning female colleagues? ![]() I’m sorry, but commercial realities are neither unacceptable nor sexist. ![]() “It is unacceptable in 2019 that men and women playing the same sport don’t get the same base pay and conditions,” she said. Male Champions of Change convener Liz Broderick said the report represented a line in the sand. These facts were, of course, overlooked in putting together the gender wage gap in sport report. It’s the fact that sports lovers, including most female fans, prefer the product produced by men. It’s not sexism, misogyny or bias, unconscious or otherwise, that makes the overwhelming majority of women in professional sport earn salaries well below their male counterparts. You don’t see athletes from low-profile sports claim bigotry for their lack of financial reward, but low-profile sportswomen are increasingly blaming sexism for their lack of riches. Some of our great athletes don’t make a dime despite the enormous work they do to represent their country. That’s why elite kayakers, shot-putters and hockey players, of both sexes, who train tirelessly and win medals are not reaping in the millions or even the thousands. In the real world the income of an athlete, male or female, corresponds to their marketability.Īnd, that marketability is linked directly to the viewing and purchasing habits of consumers, including women. The report got the usual feminists excited with talk of AFLW players earning the same salaries as AFL stars, but anybody who has any interest in sport, business or reality would’ve treated the blueprint with the disdain it so richly deserved. It’s hard to overstate the profound stupidity of demanding an end to the “gender wage gap” in professional sport.Įxpecting equal pay for equal effort in sport is among the most asinine bulldust you’ll see in 2019.īut that is precisely what the Male Champions of Change Pathway to Pay Equality report, backed by the reliably woke heads of major sporting codes - including the AFL, NRL and FFA - has recommended. ![]()
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