What Gender Pay Gap? In Japanese Golf, Women Are on Par with Men

What gender pay gap? In Japanese golf, women are on par with men

Fan and sponsorship growth has players in the JLPGA making just as much as their male counterparts, a rarity in the male-dominated world of sports.

ThePatriotLight - What gender pay gap? In Japanese golf, women are on par with men

ThePatriotLight - It’s rare for female athletes to make more money than their male counterparts, but it happens in Japan in one sport: golf.In almost every mainstream sport in the country —and in the rest of a nation that ranked No. 118 out of 148 in a recent gender gap report — women earn significantly less than men and many of them need to boost their income with second jobs.Take soccer, one of a handful of sports which has a domestic women’s …