{"id":73827,"date":"2021-08-31T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=73827"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:50","slug":"kerwin-ways-women-can-shatter-sexist-policy-we-once-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/08\/kerwin-ways-women-can-shatter-sexist-policy-we-once-supported\/","title":{"rendered":"KERWIN: Ways women can shatter sexist policy we once supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Kerwin, Associate Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, has a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/SB-Blogs\/COVID19-OpEds\/2021\/08\/26-Kerwin.aspx?hl=kerwin&amp;sc=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sports Business Journal<\/a><\/em> about ways to achieve systemic solutions for women in sports.<\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWomen are undervalued compared to men on and off the field of sport \u2014 and we know this. But we also treat the symptoms instead of the illness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In our silence around the inequality elephants in the room, we are all complicit \u2014 and neither men nor women are exempt from supporting the norms that drive our most sexist policy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These inequitable policies are so commonplace that we don\u2019t see the forest for the trees. We see that women do not receive the same job\u00a0opportunities, evaluations\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/00948705.2019.1622125\">pay<\/a>\u00a0as men in sport. As a prime example: the U.S. women\u2019s national soccer team has documented unequal compensation where the World Cup champions were paid over $2 million less in bonuses than their male counterparts by the same federation.\u00a0This is tangible evidence of the disparity in pay structure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But there\u2019s more beneath the surface.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work.\u00a0With the soccer team, the workplace is the playing field, and the norm is in clear conflict with this equality policy. Here, the norm is to devalue women\u2019s performance by suggesting that women do not deserve the same rewards for equal performance.\u00a0Both\u00a0men and women have upheld this norm by making claims that the women\u2019s game is not as popular, exciting, or physically demanding as that of the men.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In countless examples, it becomes clear that we\u2019re fighting systemic problems \u2014 so what do systemic solutions look like?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/SB-Blogs\/COVID19-OpEds\/2021\/08\/26-Kerwin.aspx?hl=kerwin&amp;sc=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Kerwin, Associate Professor of Sport Management at Brock University, has a piece recently published in Sports Business Journal about ways to achieve systemic solutions for women in sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,6],"tags":[7488,4210,10671,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73830,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73827\/revisions\/73830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}