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As a group we would like to know why “Women’s USA soccer players “With women in FIFA 16, will they have a companies in the U.S. advertise and endorse make about $25,000 - $85,000 per new celebration where you make a male soccer players more than female soccer season, while the average is sandwich?” –James Wyllie players. Even though men and women in around $40,000. Some original “Can't believe they are putting women professional soccer are playing the exact players from the U.S. National teams in FIFA 16. Out for the season due to same sport, male soccer players receive more soccer team make around double pregnancy." –Brad Hodgson advertisements and endorsements than the average. The only issue is that teams have a cap of about female soccer players do. $800,000 for salaries.” “On career mode does their morale go down every month suddenly?” –JMX “Professional soccer salaries for the men’s are much different. “Women belong in the kitchen, not on the They range from $25,000 to field. Unless there’s a new kitchen $300,000 per player. The average simulator on career mode.” –Kurt Ford appears to be around $60,000 per ƒ The existence of male-centric video games player, with many players earning “Can you now add some celebrations such such as FIFA. as taking shirts off?” –Daniel Atherton Based on the chart above, the winning men’s team (Germany) of above and beyond that” (Robert ƒ Magazine covers showing the different the 2014 FIFA World Cup won over 17 times more prize money B., Men’s vs. Women's posing of male and female soccer players. “No women should be over than 55 ratings than the winning women’s team (USA). professional soccer salaries). ƒ Average salary differences among male and in FIFA 16.” –Alex Guerrero female soccer players. ƒ Female athletes receive unequal opportunities in advertising for large companies. Note the two superstar soccer players, one male, one female, ƒ Magazines such as Sports Illustrated that but only is sexually sexualize female athletes do it to attract objectified. Out of the 716 regular more readers and sales in order to make Sports Illustrated magazines more money. published between 2000 - 2011, ƒas ThisSports leads Illustrated to the huge that wage sexualize gap between female athletesmale and do female it as soccerSports players Illustrated even that only 35 of the covers featured sexualize female athletes do it to attract female athletes (Sports Illustrated morethough readers the women’s and sales national in order team to did make Vault). moremuch money. better doin theit to last attract two World more Cups readers andthan sales the in men’s. order to make more money.as ƒ Research shows how women are often represented in accordance to hegemonic femininity and that the inequality women in sports face is due to society holding masculine values above all else.

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