If you want to cash in as a professional female athlete, your best bet is to take up tennis or golf. Forbes named Naomi Osaka ($51.5 million) the world’s highest-paid female athlete of 2022. Full rankings here ➡️
Tennis players dominating the list is due, at least in part, to Venus Williams, the elder of the Williams sisters, a longtime champion of pay equity.writing in The Times of London:
“Wimbledon has sent me a message: I’m only a second class champion … the time has come for it to do the right thing: pay men and women equal prize money,” she wrote. “The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling. My fear is that Wimbledon is loudly and clearly sending the opposite message.
, which were spotlighted this year when Brittney Griner was wrongfully detained in Russia for nearly ten months. Griner, a two-time Olympian and member of the Phoenix Mercury, was on her way back to her Moscow-area team when she was arrested and accused of carrying hash oil in her luggage. Like many of the WNBA’s top players, Griner had spent nearly a decade in Russia during the offseason, as women there can earn considerably more money than in the States.
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