Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, December 22nd.

Today on Forbes, the world's highest paid female athletes 2024.

Women's sports are riding a wave of momentum, and the rising tide is, finally, starting to lift players' pay.

Indiana fever rookie phenom, Caitlin Clark, who helped push the WNBA to record highs for

attendance and viewership, earned an estimated $8.1 million this year, matching the women's

basketball record set last year by the now-retired Candice Parker.

Thai golfer, Gino Titicool, took home a $4 million check at November's CME Group Tour Championship,

the largest prize in women's golf history,

while her LPGA tour rival, Nellie Corita,

finished with an estimated $12.5 million in total income,

the best marked by a golfer in the 17 years

Forbes has ranked female athletes' earnings. Meanwhile, 20-year-old tennis star Cocoa

golf tops this year's list with an estimated $34.4 million, which gives her one of the best

years ever recorded by a female athlete.

Goff, in that ranking, is behind only Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams,

who peaked at $57.3 million and $45.9 million in total earnings, respectively, on Forbes's list for

2021.

Together, the 20 highest paid female athletes, a list that includes Corder at number 8,

Titacool at number 12, and Clark at number 13, alongside the top-ranked golf,

collected more than $258 million in 2024.

That figure just edges 2022's top 20, when Osaka and Williams

accounted for more than $92 million between them, and represents a 15% increase over

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