This is a 2 parter...in the first part we will enlighten you with just how wide the pay gap is between male and female athletes, and break down the weak ass arguments that try to justify it. And we will start on our list of badass women who set records, blazed trails, and broke barriers for the female athletes who would follow them.

Check out the blog that goes with this podcast here: https://kellymcclain.blogspot.com/2024/04/women-athletes-pay-gap-and-other.html

There were a lot of sources for this episode, and many of them are listed on the blog. The others are:

https://sports.yahoo.com/womens-history-sports-pioneers-10-140838754.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082272202/women-soccer-contracts-equal-pay-settlement-uswnt

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/ncaa-womens-basketball-championship-views#

https://www.statista.com/statistics/240377/nba-finals-tv-viewership-in-the-united-states/#:~:text=The%202023%20NBA%20Finals%20were,the%20Boston%20Celtics%204%2D2

Thanks for listening and supporting us. (Special thanks to my hubs and his friend, my new PR manager, Bahb) <3