nalathletics.com/blog/2022/12/06/new-york-road-runners-prize-money-performance-pay-gap
NAL athletics has done some crunching of the affect of having a non-binary category in the New York Road Runners.
The conclude that :
"If men and women are biologically and, therefore, athletically different, then the non-binary category will come at the expense of female athletes. If men and women are not biologically and athletically different, then the non-binary category rewards athletic mediocrity"
As we have said in the past. For instance on this thread:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4633748-london-and-boston-marathons-to-include-non-binary-category-for-2023-races?page=1
It is pretty interesting to read the comparisons at the end though because they worked out how much two non-binary winners took home each.
The top two NYRR non-binary money winners took home $11,900 and $6,500 in 2022, averaging out to approximately $1,490 and $925 per race. Some of our other research and analysis on salaries and earnings in track & field and other niche sports can provide some context to these amounts:
*$11,000: 2022 Diamond League pre-tax income for Olympic shot putter Jacko Gill (NZ)
*$8,000: [2022 Diamond League winnings](nalathletics.com/blog/2022/10/03/diamond-league-earnings-table) for two-time World Championships competitor, NACAC gold medalist and 2019 NCAA discus champion, Laulauga Tausaga (USA)
*$13,500: 2022 Diamond League haul for Matthew Hudson-Smith, three-time World Championships competitor, 2016 Olympian and the most decorated British athlete in European Championships history
$750: average salary per game for a 20-game season ($15,000 total), Premier Hockey Federation, top women’s ice hockey league
*$1,590: average salary per game for a 22-game season in the National Women’s Soccer League, top women’s soccer league
*$3,500: average salary per game for a 10-game season the Premier Lacrosse League, top men’s outdoor lacrosse league
and
"Whatever New York Road Runners thinks they are accomplishing by signaling their inclusivity for non-binary runners, prize money is inappropriate and inconsistent with those purposes."