Starting with evidence from the Division I college level, its gender discrepancies and nuances and nuances within the dynamics of collegiate sports can be synthesized into the tale of women’s basketball. From the coaching level to the athlete, staggering difference paint a picture of the construction of misogyny in women’s basketball and also effects of these systems already put into place.

An imbalance in compensation for head coaching of women’s basketball programs is common to this example among many institutions: Bonnie Hendrickson, Head Coach of the University of Kansas Women’s Basketball Team from 2004-2015 earned $505,000 salary. The Head Coach on the men’s side, though, Bill Self, makes around $5 million (during the 2015 season) pre-bonuses. To make things more interesting, men who coach women’s teams do not remain unaffected by these nuances in compensation– Head Coach of UConn, Geno Auriemma is at the top end of earnings for NCAA DI Women’s Basketball, making a little over $2 million in the 2015 season. The University of Connecticut women’s side has won 9 national titles in the duration of his Geno’s career. His counterpart on the men’s side with this type of success, perhaps Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, makes almost $10 million. This inequality persists.

Nevertheless, these differences are somewhat inevitable, due to the profitability of Men’s College Basketball over the Women’s. Thus, this plays a huge role over these numbers as opposed to simply bias, of course.

Furthermore, and on a more broad side, there are breakdowns of the number of female coaches when the school’s Athletic Director is female versus male. In 2014, 43% of coaches were female with a male Athletic Director, while 47% were female when the Athletic Director was also female.

Finally, a closer look at the path of a female college basketball player to the WNBA is important to take, as league policies reveal a bias towards men as well. One of the most controversial sporting issues in the past 10 years has been within the NBA and its age requirement regarding eligibility to play in the league– in 2005, it was stated that all drafted players must be 19 years of age during the calendar year of the draft. Prior to this, male basketball players could jump straight from high school in to the NBA– the issue comes to play when discussing the loss of the year/years in school, and how that may affect opportunities for the future of that athlete. There have been arguments made about how much that athlete got out of his classes regardless– but there was pushback on the rule, saying that it is ethically flawed.

The WNBA’s version of the rule, endorsed by the NCAA, requires players to be at least 22 years old, to have completed their college eligibility, and to have graduated from a four-year college or be four years out of high school. Thus, female basketball players are required to wait three years longer than their male counterparts– before even having the option to play professionally.

There was a study conducted in 2008 by Marc Edelman and C. Keith Harrison regarding this discrepancy, and it states: “By limiting women basketball players’ right to choose between education and career opportunities, these women’s individual interests are being subordinated to society’s will.”

Furthermore, a SportsMoney contributor to Forbes during this past year released this after the conclusion of this year’s March Madness– both the men’s and women’s tournament:

“WNBA players make $71,635 on average while the average NBA salary is $6.4 million. Last year’s No. 1 WNBA draft pick, A’ja Wilson, is earning just $52,564. And bonuses amplify this discrepancy.

In the March Madness basketball tournaments, the NCAA gives the men’s teams’ conferences over $1.6 million for each win while the women’s teams get absolutely nothing for their wins. Yet thousands of people attend the women’s tournament, millions watch their games on television, and the NCAA receives millions of dollars from advertisers. How does the NCAA come to the conclusion that the women’s games have no value?”