#ICYMI - Gender Inequality in Sports, with Heather O’Reilly

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🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel…. Hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice investigate the systemic gender bias and discrimination happening in professional sports with World Cup winner and former USWNT soccer star Heather O’Reilly, and economist Andrew Zimbalist, PhD. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Heather O’Reilly.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary A'Reilly.
0:02.0	You've done top nice.
0:03.0	This is playing with science.
0:06.0	Today we return to gender in sport and the pay gap between the women and the men.
0:13.0	So simply put, show me the money and help us.
0:17.0	Understand what it takes to rise to the very, very top of her sport and stay there we have...
0:22.0	Heather A'Reilly.
0:24.0	She is a three-time Olympic gold medal winner and a World Cup winner and owner of 230 caps for the US women's national team over a 15-year period.
0:35.0	And no, she is not related to Gary, is she?
0:40.0	Duh.
0:41.0	It's quite easy to see really when you think she's talented, really talented.
0:45.0	And I don't have money.
0:47.0	Don't you dare put your sat down.
0:48.0	I haven't got my name in that sentence.
0:49.0	But banging on about the pay gap and gender inequality is meaningless, totally meaningless.
0:55.0	If we can't explain to how's and the why's so crunching the numbers for us and bringing a wealth of experience is Robert A. Woods' professor of economics at Smith College.
1:05.0	Andrew Zimbulis.
1:07.0	So let's get to the good professor, shall we?
1:09.0	And we certainly shall.
1:10.0	So Andrew has published numerous articles and books, 28 books to be exact, including equal pay, title nine and social change, the International Handbook of Economics and Megasports events,
1:25.0	circus Maximus, the economic gamble behind hosting the Olympics and the World Cup and Rio 2016 Olympic myths and hard realities.
1:37.0	And that is just a smattering of what this man does.
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