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Twenty Yards From The End Zone: Adr, And The Potential For Greater Levels Of Gender Equality In Professional Sports Employment, Elan Kirshenbaum
Twenty Yards From The End Zone: Adr, And The Potential For Greater Levels Of Gender Equality In Professional Sports Employment, Elan Kirshenbaum
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This Note will highlight the specific instances of gender-based employment discrimination in professional sports and then consider how alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) provides the best avenue to address and correct these imbalances. In particular, this Note will analyze the benefits and drawbacks of ADR and litigation, while simultaneously applying this analysis to the discussion of the gender gap in professional sports employment. Part II will outline several examples of this discrimination, while also briefly detailing the general hiring and wage gaps that exist between men and women. In doing so, this section will examine the hiring practices of three of …