Chart Blog Post

Highest Paid Athletes | Mekko Graphics

This is one of my favorite charts as it is a direct explanation and display of male dominance in sports. Unfortunately, males lead women in revenue when it comes athletics and a lot of the reason is due to the interest of the fans. While a lot of people enjoy women’s sports, the majority of people mainly watch the men, creating a large pay gap between genders. This graph shows the innate bias for mens sports within the world and is the reason why teams such as the Women’s National Soccer Team does not have the opportunity to be treated the same. Hopefully, in the future, these numbers are changed. Women, especially in soccer, are starting to prove that many people enjoy and respect their sport. While the fight for equal pay continues, many women are speaking up.

Graphs such as these are important because numbers make us feel something or sure of ourselves. This graph shows a lot of high numbers and therefore may infer differences within genders. Due to the lack of female representation, what does this graph insinuate about women? Does this suggest that females may lack talent or entertainment? This graph and the ways in which numbers work is interesting to look at as numbers are always manipulated.

2 thoughts on “Chart Blog Post

  1. Maeve Hall

    I like how you used this graph to represent how we can make false assumptions and reinforce the stereotype bias we discussed early in class. The assumption that women are worse at sports because of data that actually represents the current difference in acknowledgement is a great example of this.

  2. Kendall Miller

    Yes, I agree with Maeve; I think falsely representing numbers is one thing that can be fixed if we just change the graphic, but you can’t change the truth.

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