Dawn Staley, the head coach for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks — the women’s national champions — said referees on the men’s side should be “stepping up” and advocating for equal pay for women’s referees. “They don’t do anything different,” she said. “Why should our officials get paid less for taking the we give them?”
The Pac-12 paid referees equally a decade ago, but allowed a disparity to build over time, according to associate commissioner Teresa Gould. She said returning to equal pay is “the right thing to do.” All NCAA referees are independent contractors, with no union representing their interests, and all have to cover their own travel expenses.
Several conference commissioners said the men’s and women’s games do not generate equal amounts of revenue, and that the level of play is not equal, and so referee salaries are set accordingly.
it was never about sex it was about money and woman's sports brings in none how hard is that to understand. No one goes to the games
Some people make less because of the job they excepted. Want to get paid more, apply for a job that pays more? Idk y’all are crazy.
BIGEAST Hey Val, it’s the job the refs are getting paid for. Refs do the same job regardless of who’s playing. Equal pay for equal work is how it goes. Nothing about how many bodies in the seats.
All for equal pay for the Same job. But the women can ref mens games too now. The women’s game doesn’t generate as much revenue because they haven’t created the same demand. Women need to take responsibility that they are failing in their marketing strategies.
If you’ve ever been to a collegiate women’s basketball game, you understand why they get paid less.
But it’s nit equal work. Mens game faster and harder to ref. Lots more pressure from the number of eyes and coverage of the hand. Simply not the same job.
Maybe thats because nobody watches women's games🙄
They aren’t saying women refs make less, they’re saying refs make less for womens GAMES. Which, ya know, makes sense from a revenue standpoint, but hey, virtue signal to your hearts desire even though it makes zero sense to do so.
You know who is going to pay for the higher womens refs? The MEN
Yawn
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