I'm fairly sure that the average salary of a male professional player is (considerably) higher than that of a female. The top female prospects such as Zhu Ting or KYK are the exception rather than the norm.
2018 FIVB World Championship - Japan
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Yea I have no idea about the average, that could be higher for the male. The top players definitely make more though in the women's. I just mentioned it as a thing to be proud of for the women's as it is basically the only sport where they come close and even make more on some occasions.
Oh and maybe they come fairly close in tennis as well, but those are it.
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Tennis is actually a very similar example, the top women can outearn the men on prize money alone, but the further you go down the list, the more skewed in favour of the men it becomes.
There are sports that actually have equal prize money for both sexes, like athletics and swimming, but men can generally earn more on endorsement money and appearance fees than women. And then there are those that are the other way around, like gymnastics or figure skating where women earn more, although in absolute numbers it doesn't amount to much except for the very best.
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Women’s World Championship 2018 – 2nd Round – Pool F Preview
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Actually, I see that Sport Klub have updated their schedule and now they have BRA vs GER at 3:40 and SRB vs MEX at 6:25
Neither FIVB nor German sites have made any changes though. I'm not going to wake up and watch at either time, but it's flat out pathetic that with less than 12 hours before the match there still is confusion about who plays when, and that in a World Championship...
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i for one am glad i can catch RUS x TUR at a decent hour, it’ll be 21:40 when they play, although it’ll be not so good for the players.
let’s hope for a good stream and that my connection won’t die.
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Neither FIVB nor German sites have made any changes though. I'm not going to wake up and watch at either time, but it's flat out pathetic that with less than 12 hours before the match there still is confusion about who plays when, and that in a World Championship...
Another update, and now they have SRB vs MEX back at 3:40
It really is ridiculous. If it was another opponent I just might stay awake for the first set at least, but I'm not taking any chances now.
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Yeah I think it is, top players like Zhu Ting, KYK, Tijana Boskovic etc. get paid quite a lot more then top male players according to very reliable sources. I know that male volleyball is also popular esp. in some places but I'd say in general women's is a tad bit more popular then men's. Though if you ask me both get followed too little still compared to other sports, like basketball, football.
It also depends on certain countries, in Turkey f.e. male volleyball is nowhere near as popular as women's. No one cares about the males basically... In some other countries, males is more popular.
I can contribute some informations about that: in Germany Sport1 free TV station is airing now in the season coming for the second time the Bundesliga/VBL matches - and they air now about twice as much women's matches as men's matches; in the first place last season they started with women's league only and later added men's league. The TV numbers were/are justifying it: the matches of women's teams had considerably more spectators than the matches of men's teams. And this came as no surprise to me: you can more easily follow the ball in womens volleyball due to lower speeds (despite there are some (half a dozen or so) hard hitters in the world, who can even there accelerate the ball to speed of just above 100 km/h in attack and service) and the single points are more played than just plain hit with brute force (sorry, but for example Georg Grozer is kind of volleyball cannon, if he hits full, so it's hard to follow). From a more subjective viewpoint I think women's volleyball is more like the rules/intentions were created, and they move much more smooth and even graceful as men do, are even superiour in digging IMHO...
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I actually agree with ossubtus ! Sadly women are completely 2nd rank humans in a lot of the Muslim countries in the world and therefore their countries don't give a crap about their women's teams. Turkey is indeed the big exception because culturally and politically the country has not been raised as basically any Muslim country but rather with secular values. F.e. the 'hijab' the Iranian team is wearing was actually banned here in public spaces untill not long ago. It's actually even more sad when you realise a lot of Iranian girls don't even want to wear it but are FORCED to do so... as StefanS also said wearing this is also very dangerous for the players and I think can not be justified esp. when it's forced. You don't see 'anything' wrong with it? I think everything is wrong with forcing people to wear something they are not comfortable with and and it's even a 100% more wrong when that is posing a risk to their health ....
There are more Muslim majorities though that are similar to the Turkish and don't treat women as 2nd class; Bosnians and Albanians definitely. Azerbaijan might not play with their own ppl but the women are definitely not treated as in some Arab countries either.
It's actually a huge problem and I think deserves a mention, it's not just Muslims though... Anywhere with too much (radical) religion and women will be 2nd class. Other then that there is indeed more factors, a lot of countries all around the world don't take female sports serious still Muslim or not but the world is moving forward slowly but surely and that's why I think it's so amazing that in sports like volleyball women get paid more then men!! It's the only one anyway, let the females have that
I don't think it's completely off-topic but it might be a little so sorry for that!
I'm definitely against how women are forced by the law to wear hijab in public in Iran. However, we should understand and respect the fact that each country has it's own laws, religion, traditions and values.
I don't see the difference between forcing women to wear hijab in public (Iran law) and forcing women to take off hijab in public (the previous Turkish law you mentioned). Don't you think there was so many religious women who struggled with this law as they were asked to take off their head scarf in order to attend university or get a job??? They are also women, aren't they???
I'm not Iranian to tell or judge how females are treated out there but not everything we see on internet and western media about this country is true.
By the way, Turkey is not the perfect place either.
That's absolutely off topic, my apologies.
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I can contribute some informations about that: in Germany Sport1 free TV station is airing now in the season coming for the second time the Bundesliga/VBL matches - and they air now about twice as much women's matches as men's matches; in the first place last season they started with women's league only and later added men's league. The TV numbers were/are justifying it: the matches of women's teams had considerably more spectators than the matches of men's teams. And this came as no surprise to me: you can more easily follow the ball in womens volleyball due to lower speeds (despite there are some (half a dozen or so) hard hitters in the world, who can even there accelerate the ball to speed of just above 100 km/h in attack and service) and the single points are more played than just plain hit with brute force (sorry, but for example Georg Grozer is kind of volleyball cannon, if he hits full, so it's hard to follow). From a more subjective viewpoint I think women's volleyball is more like the rules/intentions were created, and they move much more smooth and even graceful as men do, are even superiour in digging IMHO...
I beg to differ, if you're talking about speed, ice hockey is much faster, you can barely see the ball, and yet, so many people watch it. This only proves that in Germany, women's volleyball is more popular. It's the same in countries like Japan, China, Thailand, USA, etc. More people follow women's volleyball.
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Those early times really suck, at least for me this WCH does not make me happy.
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I only watched 1 match live that I really wanted to watch and and watch few match that I can because of time, but they are bot interesting at all... So they I'm not so in to this WCH.
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1st round was indeed not so interesting however I feel 2nd round might be quite a bit better in terms of level. Annoying thing is times won't change, I also barely watched matches even when I tried to wake up for them. I actually am happy though that some matches will play 3:40 CET time which is much more doable for me then early morning.
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I guess FIVB should make them play like 2..3...4 in the morning LOCAL TIME in order to accommodate European fans...this way u guys can watch everything in prime time...screw the players....make them wake up at 3am.
I`m sorry...but if u don`t wake up to watch a WCH that means u r not a true volleyball fan. And that is the problem with volleyball...there`s not many true fans out there... In the soccer World Cup everyone across the Globe wakes up...stays up late and do whatever to watch .... this is the type of fans that volleyball does not have.
I have been watching games at 10pm....1am and 3am...then I wake at 7am to go to work....and I`m not complaining ...is only for 20 days...u won`t die for waking up in the middle of the night to watch a game....
#YouGuysAreNotTrueFans
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I`m sorry...but if u don`t wake up to watch a WCH that means u r not a true volleyball fan.LOL
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what hurts the moat is going through this threads and seeing comments about your religion in the most degrading way. Why does the mods allow these kinda posts in here? Smh.
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Soccer matches have a good time schedule for all continents. Even Eurovision which was held in Azerbaijan started in Baku I guess local time 12 am (midnight) which was for Europe 9 pm (It starts always at 9 pm).
What I try to say is that FIVB should give the early matches for the American teams so their native people can watch the matches at a normal time, afterwards matches to Asian teams who would play on midday which is not a big problem for them and the latest matches to European teams who can watch the matches at a normal time in the morning.
Yes I know this can‘t be always done like this if you have not a balance, just saying.
Or one Pool plays on a day and the other Pool the day after so tht we don‘t have so many matches (which have to start early local time) on one day. Even the players are not used to play a match on 10/11 am local time.
Fivb is really miles miles miles behind fifa and fiba!
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I haven’t missed 3:20 AM Japanese game yet
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FIVB doesn't care about Europe, at least when it comes to women's volleyball. It's as simple as that.