gender pay gap

Fiao’o Fa’amausili was the captain of the New Zealand (NZ) Black Ferns, our national women’s rugby team, until 2018. The Black Ferns have been a very successful team, winning the Women’s Rugby World Cup a record five times.

 Wow! Despite this success, the Black Ferns have only recently become ‘professional’ rugby players who are paid to play rugby. Although they are paid, the Black Ferns make less money than members of the men’s professional rugby team - the All Blacks. 

This difference in pay is often called the ‘gender pay gap’ and it is not uncommon in sports. What do you think about this? Is it fair? Should female athletes, like the Black Ferns, be paid the same amount as male athletes who play the same sport?

I think it is fair for women athletes to get paid the same amount of money as the men athletes.

Why? because for starters women put more effort in winning than men do, reason 2 cause its not fair that men get paid more and 3 because like the black ferns they won the rugby world cup records five times , that's like putting all their hard work and effort into it.