The document discusses several topics related to women in sports, including: 1) The history of women's soccer at FC Barcelona and the lack of recognition for decades. 2) Gender pay gaps in soccer, with the star player on the women's team making over 2,000 times less than Lionel Messi. 3) Increased participation of women in the Olympics over time, though women still have little power in leadership roles in sports organizations.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Sport & Women
Spanish 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

4. Sport & Women
Soccer World
Cup

5. 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

6. 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.

8. 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.

9. Women Men
Soccer (Spain) 10,000-12,000€ 129,000€ legal minimum
Messi and Ronaldo: 50M€
Basketball (USA) $105,000
maximum salary
$507,336 minimum salary
Kobe Bryant: $30.5 million
Sport salaries for Women and Men in 2014

10. 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

11. Should female athletes be paid
the same as male athletes?

12. Sport & Women Salaries
Some points in favor and against equal salary
distribution between men and women:
Yes No
 Equal pay for equal work

13. 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…

14. 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…

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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?

20. 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?

21. 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.

22. 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."

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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 Castro
go Ruben Castro
It wasn’t your fault
she was a b**ch
you did good”
3.
Domestic
violence

29. 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

30. 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

31. Sport & Women
 “Flower jar” women
In many sports women are used as
ornaments , as part of the prize for the
winners
4.
Sexism

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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