An Interesting topic for sure. Like you say, sports are a business, otherwise how else would they pay their players? Football (soccer to some) is a good example to use. For a long time women weren't even allowed to play the sport, so by default it's worked its way into our psyche as being a man's world. Even today, more men enjoy football than women and I'm guessing that many would say that women just aren't as good to watch as men are (men and women alike). So if women's football doesn't draw the crowds, then they aren't going to be making the same amount of money, so the players will have lower pay.
It's going to take time, possibly generations, for the women's side to become just as accepted as the men's. It is good to see that sports news seems to be including them more on the same level as the men's in their reporting now, though.
Agreed, things are definitely improving on the publicity end. I think pushing publicity and acceptance is the way to getting a fair or even better deal than men rather than solely making demands
Agreed. The trick is to normalise things you want to bring change for and that comes with slow consistency. When you shout ant it and force it in people's faces, you often have the opposite effect.