The Conversation We’re Not Having About Caitlin Clark
Pay her what she’s worth, yes. But how do we determine her worth, and will a higher salary close the gender pay gap?
I am only slightly exaggerating when I say that basketball saved my daughter. She had just turned 11 when I drove her, kicking and screaming, to her first practice.
Over the course of the preceding few months, she had plunged headfirst into adolescence, and no one in the family, herself included, had quite been prepared for it. Suddenly teachers were calling us nearly every week to recount her disruptive behavior; at home, she shut herself in her room for hours at a time and listened to angsty music, emerging primarily to alternately yell at us and ask us to buy her things.
I thought a sports team might help to channel her ferocity; also, it would get her out of the house. Given that it was December and she was nearly a head taller than anyone else in her grade, basketball seemed the obvious choice. I played basketball myself from fourth to 11th grade; it was a game I understood and suspected my daughter would enjoy.
The highlight of my middle school experience was uniting with my scrappy team of five other players, with whom I’d been playing for four years, to beat a superior…
