Pay Gap To begin with, the most obvious and sad things about gender …show more content…
A research article finding states “greater gender equality (measured using the Gender Inequality Index) is associated with higher participation and medal counts in the Summer Olympic Games from 1996 through 2012” (Lowen et al., 2016, p. 260). The researchers’ “method in trying to prove this statement correct began with analyzed data from the Summer Olympic Games held in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. Data on medals won were collected from the New York Times (2008) and the website of the International Olympic Committee (2012b). Because individual athletes can enter more than one event, we use the number of medals instead of the number of medalists” (Lowen et al., 2016, p.265). Lowen et al. (2016) hypothesized that women’s power has something to do with the universal athletic winnings (p. 260). At the end of all the data findings Lowen et al. (2016) confirmed their conclusion that the more equal genders are treated, the more the Olympic achievement rate, athlete participation, and medial sum increased dramatically (p.