how to reply to this classmates discussion post respectfully, The attempts to achieve gender equality in sport has been a long battle that even though we have made big strides in recent years, we still have a long ways to go. Even with the recent rise in interest here in the United States surrounding women's basketball at the college and hopefully soon the pro level the contrast between mens and women's sport is astounding. For example Caitlin Clark who was recently the number one draft pick in women's basketball is expected to make on average about $76,000 dollars a year in her first five year contract. However just a year earlier the mens number one draft pick is looking to make about twelve million dollars a year in each of his first five years. Examples like this show that we are countless steps away from true equality. Everyone sees the steps towards equality between mens and womens sport differently. Some people believe that men and women will never be equal in sport, while many others believe it is only a matter of time before we treat men and women the same at the highest levels of sport. Last week we