England's men's and women's teams receive equal pay, says FA

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England's men's and women's teams receive equal pay, says FA

 

FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Wembley Stadium, London, Britain - March 16, 2020 General view outside Wembley stadium. Action Images via Reuters/Matthew Childs/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - England's men's and women's national soccer teams are being paid the same appearance fee to represent their country, the Football Association said on Thursday.

 

In a statement released to British media, the FA revealed parity on match fees had been in place since January.

 

"The FA pays its women's players exactly the same as their male counterparts for representing England, both in terms of match fees and match bonuses," the FA said in a statement.

 

On Wednesday, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) joined Australia, Norway and New Zealand in committing to paying their men's and women's sides the same amount for earning a cap.

 

"There is no more gender difference, the CBF is treating men and women equally," CBF chief Rogerio Caboclo said in statement https://www.cbf.com.br/selecao-brasileira/noticias/selecao-feminina/presidente-da-cbf-anuncia-equiparacao-das-diarias-pagas-as-selecoes-br.

 

Caboclo, however, said prize money from the World Cup would be proportionally equal to what global soccer governing body FIFA pays the competing nations.

 

The Brazil women's team reached the World Cup final in 2007 and Olympic finals in 2004 and 2008. The men's team have won the World Cup a record five times and Olympic gold once.  

 

FIFA offered prize money of $30 million to the teams in the 2019 women's World Cup, while the men took home $400 million. 

 

Yet the CBF said it would give men and women the same daily allowance when they are on international duty and pay them the same prize money for success in the Olympics.

 

The International Olympic Committee does not pay prize money to medal winners.

 

Pay disparity between men's and women's professional soccer players has been in the spotlight since the United States women's team sued its governing body U.S. Soccer last year alleging gender discrimination in earnings and working conditions.

 

The team's claims were dismissed by a court in May and a bid to appeal the decision immediately was denied.

 

Australian soccer's governing body said in November that it had reached an agreement with the players' union on a new collective bargaining agreement that "closes the pay gap" between the men's and women's teams.

 

(Reporting by Andrew Downie; Additional reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar and Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing by Shri Navaratnam/Toby Davis/Ken Ferris)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-09-04

 

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[blazes]

Utter woke nonsense.

 

3000 turn out to see the women play.  90,000 the men. 

 

Say average entry fee = £50.  Men bring in 4.5 million, women 150,000.

 

Equal pay for equal work????

[Henryford]

Women play football !!

[mr mr]

it's like saying that an extra on a movie should get paid as much as tom hardy. 

 

 

[jesimps]

All they have to do now is convince the people to watch female football, the equivalent of watching paint dry. PC nonsense. Mind you, I won't be watching any football from now on after the taking of the knee to BLM. An act of treachery after seeing them desecrate the cenotaph, the national flag and the Churchill statue.

[rupert the bear]

no one goes to watch.the US ladies were beaten by a under 16s team so much for world champs.its a disgrace,equal performance = pay.more woke BS.

[sungod]

1 hour ago, blazes said:

Utter woke nonsense.

 

3000 turn out to see the women play.  90,000 the men. 

 

Say average entry fee = £50.  Men bring in 4.5 million, women 150,000.

 

Equal pay for equal work????

Whilst I kinda agree, I dont think you should be paid anything other than expenses for the honor to represent your country.

[Kadilo]

On 9/4/2020 at 1:45 AM, mr mr said:

it's like saying that an extra on a movie should get paid as much as tom hardy. 

 

 

Is it?

[CorpusChristie]

On 9/4/2020 at 9:01 AM, sungod said:

Whilst I kinda agree, I dont think you should be paid anything other than expenses for the honor to represent your country.

The mens England team donate their "pay" to charity 

[wilai]

5 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

The mens England team donate their "pay" to charity 

Based on lasr night's performance cbarity would probably refuse payment.