As sexist barriers fall throughout society, fans will see a blurring of the sex-segregated lines in rodeo events. Women in rodeo likely will narrow the gap between their earnings and visibility, just as women have in other professional sports. About 10,000 riders hold PRCA memberships. Only about 300, however, rodeo full-time. The remainder support their rodeo habit with other jobs.
Top riders fly from rodeo to rodeo in chartered planes.
That year between 16 and 17 million fans attended PRCA events. Dallas hosted the first NFR in 1959. The contest later moved to Oklahoma City. After a twenty-year tenure there, the NFR moved to Las Vegas in 1985. The year's top fifteen money-winners compete in nine days of events.