“If I Can Make It There, I ‘ll Make It Anywhere,” But Will You Recognize My Worth?
tHERSday thoughts
Lately, women in sports have led the news: Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese notably among them. A good thing for sure. Strong, smart, successful women. Leaders each of them.
So why then does the media still not feature them and other women, or show respect for them, in the same ways they do their male counterparts? Why then does the business world still diminish their accomplishments by failing to pay them their worth, less than their male counterparts?
What’s going on now, you ask? Let me tell you.
The NCAA tournament featured some of the most talented basketball players in women’s college basketball. Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese among them. You don’t have to follow college sports to have heard of them and their accomplishments. Yeah, there was a guy’s tournament but nobody who didn’t watch the men could name any of them. I can’t, and I used to watch college hoops, rooting for Tom Izzo’s Michigan State Spartans. I remember a few years ago Zion Williamson (now of the New Orleans Pelicans). Beyond that, I can’t name any (and high school phenoms like Kobe and Lebron are not the topic here.) Caitlin Clark broke all-time NCAA scoring records, not women’s records, all of them – men’s and women’s. She competes all out, and her colleagues on other teams recognize it, match and exceed her intensity. Just look at how they stand up for each other:
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