International Soccer Has an Even Bigger Gender Pay Gap: Chart

[Bill Cipher]

Mar 31 2016 13:18:12

By Janet Paskin
 (Bloomberg) --




Five star players on the U.S. women's national soccer team have filed a wage-discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, pointing out that they're paid much less than their counterparts on the men's national team. The pay disparity is also substantial at the international level. In the most recent men's World Cup, the winning team took home $35 million, while in the 2015 women's tournament, the winners earned $2 million -- one-quarter the payout for a first-round exit by a men's team.

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[jmyrlefuller]

Isn't international sport like this supposed to be totally amateur?

Besides, the U.S. is probably the only country where any women's sport can draw enough fans to have any sort of professional payment at all—and judging by the failures of the WUSA and WPS, even that is tenuous.

How do they plan on rectifying this? Diverting revenues from the men's game to the women?