Athletics and Gender

In 1972 the Title IX law was passed by President Richard Nixon to prohibit any sex discrimination in any education program or activity. This law finally gave women the equal opportunity to participate in athletics the same as men did. They would be able to have their own teams in the same sports as men did.
Nowadays people still view athletics as predominantly male orientated. Even though equal in what sports males and females can play people still pay more attention to the sports that men take part in. More people will watch the NBA over the WNBA or men’s soccer over women’s. People seem to find men’s sports are more fun and interesting to watch than women’s. As I see on television, a Buck’s arena would be filled over Los Angeles Sparks team.
There are several women’s sports equal to men from football, basketball, baseball/softball and more, but they are just not talked about as much as men’s athletics. In reality, men’s athletics will bring more people out which in return will make more money. You don’t see a woman’s football draft or WNBA like you see men have every year and you don’t hear about these great female athletes like you hear about men on ESPN.
In a sense just because the Title IX law was passed and women do indeed have the fair chance to play sports, men still are the dominate ones in the athletics just because it is more popular among people to take interest in males playing the games. This in turn reduces women's salaries because the return on revenue is a lot less, the MVP of the WNBA makes a few hundred thousand dollars, while the MVP of the NBA makes several million. I hope in the near future women are capable of making the similar salaries as their male counterparts so that there is more balance in this industry, while the Title IX is a great start to achieving this balance, it is still a long ways away.