Gender pay gap in football

karen7 said:
This thread was about the US women wanting to be paid the same,they won the world cup,the men weren't even in it,if the men qualify next time and get knocked out in the groups and the women do better they shouldn't be paid less,the mens game is not the be all and end all,Whoever does better for the national team deserve better pay than those who achieve less,womens football has to be allowed to grow
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nope. Women's football can grow, then earn the same revenues, then have the same pay structure.
 
Woman's world cup generated 90m
Men's world cup generated 4billion

What your basically saying is jane from heald green amateur dramatic society should get the same pay as tom cruise, that is the gap in levels we are talking about
 
The whole equal pay argument is at the height of ridiculousness in tennis.

Five set five hour epic Wimbledon final, two guys leaving everything they have out on court, get paid the same as two women in a one hour non event.

It's ludicrous.
 
BJL_City said:
in a less popular, less commercial and less talented World Cup full of essentially amateur level teams which earns a fraction of the revenue of the men's counterpart. It's a completely different sport which generates it's own revenues and they should be paid a percentage based on what they generate, like everyone else in the real world.

Once the women's World Cup generates the same revenues as the men's World Cup, then women's national teams can demand the same cut as the men's teams do. Until then, it's just hysterical entitlement.

Assistants don't paid the same as executives just because they work under the same umbrella organisation. Women's football and men's football are different divisions, different sports and generate different revenues to the umbrella organisation. It's absurd to suggest they should be paid the same when one does a much better job at bringing in the dosh than the other. It's the same principle at national level as at club level. In reality, the US women have probably ended up earning more than the men because they won the World Cup and the men didn't qualify so didn't get a share of the World Cup earnings, which is fair. Had the men qualified though, they deserve more because they are bringing in more revenue from FIFA for the men's World Cup so deserve to be remunerated accordingly.
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The women's national team in the USA have I believe higher TV viewing figures and higher match attendances than the men.
 
If we want a reasonable comparison of two teams so that the case for equal pay can be put without making the simple nonsense of playing 'the same game' being the cornerstone, against whom would, say, MCWFC compare, and let's not forget, Karen, I am an ST holder for MCWFC, and I would say that the PL2 team playing CFC last night would have given our women a hefty drubbing. To which level would we need to go to get a game that would give us a hard-fought draw? And when we arrive at that level the remuneration stare us in the face.
 
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