The Gender Pay Gap Visualized

Source: Statista

The U.S. women’s soccer team World Cup win in France in the beginning of July brought the gender pay gap, in sports and elsewhere, back into the spotlight in the U.S. The team around captain Megan Rapinoe took home US$4 million, compared to US$38 million for the winners of men’s soccer World Cups.

Back in March, the U.S. team also filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, demanding that female U.S. soccer players get paid as much as their male counterparts. While the U.S. women’s team is the most successful national team in the world with four World Cup wins since 1991 and four Olympic titles since 1996, the U.S. men’s team didn’t qualify for the 2018 World Cup and placed in the top 10 only twice since 1930.

But this instance does not only affect female athletes. On average, American working women are paid 80 cents for every dollar that working men make.

For some ethnicities however, the pay gap is much larger than that, as data provided by the National Women’s Law Center shows. While Asian American women get paid more than the average woman in the U.S., Latina women, Native American women and Black women fare much worse.

Latinas get paid no more than 53 cents for every dollar white, non-Hispanic men make. According to these earnings Latina’s Equal Pay Day is almost eight months later than for women overall. While the average woman in the U.S. would have to work until April 2, 2019, to earn as much as the average man, Latinas would have to work until Nov 20 to earn as much as white, non-Hispanic men earned in 2018. This date is Sept 23 for Native women and Aug 22 for Black women.

2019 Wimbledon Sees 30 Percent Viewership Increase

Gentlemen’s Championship Ranks as Second Most-Viewed Tennis Telecast in ESPN History

Multiple Events Experience Summer Ratings Spike

(espnpressroom.com) The 2019 Wimbledon Championships on ESPN averaged 877,000 viewers (P2+), an increase of 30% over last year (675,000), according to Nielsen. The two weeks of coverage included nearly 150 hours from London. Eleven of the 13 days experienced an increase in viewership.

The most-viewed two days came on Championship Weekend – 3,329,000 for the Gentlemen’s Championship and Ladies’ Doubles Championship on Sunday – ESPN’s second-most viewed tennis telecast in history, and an average of 1,197,000 for Saturday’s Ladies’ Championship and the Men’s Doubles Championship. Sunday’s Men’s Final telecast was the most-viewed since the Federer vs. Murray final in 2012 with 3,300,000 viewers, an increase of 211% from last year’s Men’s final telecast.

Additional Summer Event Increases

Additional ESPN summer events that have seen viewership growth:

  • Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby which averaged 6,201,000 viewers (P2+), an increase of 4% over last year (5,971,000).
  • Formula 1—through ten live races this season— has averaged 677,000 viewers (P2+), an increase of 18% over last year (574,000).
  • NBA Summer League games averaged 601,000 viewers on ESPN, an increase of 35% from last year.
  • NBA Summer League matchup between New Orleans and New York averaged 1,641,000 viewers (P2+), making it the most-viewed NBA Summer League game ever across ESPN networks.
  • Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest which averaged 1,153,000 viewers (P2+), an increase of 4% from last year (1,114,000).

These increases come on the heels of a tremendous June.

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