Gender Pay Gap in Sports Presentation

Name: Nazir Primus

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Pay Gap for Women Athletes

Date of Fieldwork: January 25, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):My Social Justice Group

Type of Fieldwork: SJ Presentation

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

Yesterday, I presented with my social justice group, about our topic. We had many articles on the issue of the gender pay gap and how women get treated as athletes. I was very confident while presenting because I worked very hard on the slideshow. My group did a fantastic job collaborating. I believe it’s important to note that the lowest-paid player in the NBA gets paid 925,000 yearly and they don’t even get playing time 90% of the time. However, women who are star players and give it their all every day get paid 100,000-200,000 yearly.

Nazir Primus

Nazir is an eighth-grade student at LREI. He was born in New York City, New York. His hobbies include playing sports, watching movies, and painting. Nazir is dedicated to helping change the gender pay gap in sports and believes what Ali Kreiger says "We got $2 million for winning the World Cup and had to split it up amongst the group. Whereas the U.S. men's team got $8 million after losing in round 16. And we actually won the tournament! It just makes no sense. This is why we're doing whatever we can to use our platforms, like coming here to the espnW Summit, to spread the word and get people interested. We want people to pay more attention. We want to put women's football on the map." —Ali Krieger, U.S. Women's National Team 2015 World Cup Champion. 

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