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It’s common knowledge that men’s sports have been around longer than women??€™s sports, and in general, more people watch men’s sports compared to women??€™s. Not only are men’s teams attracting more fans, but they are also acquiring more money. Today, the average major league baseball player makes $3 million each year. A professional softball player is lucky to make $5,000 for a summer’s worth of work. Obviously, the markets for each sport are drastically different, but the better...
...took on Princeton in front of a sold-out crowd, many of whom were students who had to lottery to get a ticket to the game. This happened several more times throughout the season, thanks to a group of students who marketed the games to the student body. The women??€™s basketball program never had students fighting to get tickets to its games. Furthermore, women??€™s basketball has won at least a share of 11 Ivy League championships in its history, including a devastating upset of No. 1 seed Stanford in the 1998 NCAA tournament. Men?...
Don’t get me wrong; I’m guilty of watching male sports more often than female sports too. Every March Madness, I find myself completing the men’s bracket while just acknowledging the front-runners of the women??€™s pool. But as a graduating female athlete at Harvard, I look back on my four years and am dumbfounded as to why this phenomenon occurs on both a professional and collegiate level...
Even in The Crimson, the newspaper for which I write, we oftentimes see more focus put on men’s sports than women??€™s. I doubt this is ever on purpose. Simply put, the average person will think of men playing sports before women. In fact, at our beat draft two years ago (the time when each sportswriter can pick a sport they want to follow for the entire year), softball was the last sport picked, while baseball was secured in the first round...
...player, hate the game. I don’t hate men’s sports, but I do hate the game of gender appeal differences in sports. We’ve tried dozens of initiatives to change this point of view. Title IX. Establishing the WNBA. Putting the Women??€™s College World Series on ESPN. Still, the stigma lives on. Most people I have talked to have told me they had no idea what a fast-paced and exciting sport softball was until they saw a college game...