I saw that the women’s soccer team makes less than the men’s (USA). I also saw that the men’s teams make 9% of the total revenue while the women make 13% of the total revenue. Is there a source of money that women are not getting or something? If they want to increase the pay where would the money come from?
EDIT: There’s a bill that was introduced that would shut down the US hosting the World Cup until the pay gap was fixed. My question is how would it get fixed? I understand the women generate less revenue therefor make less. So how would they get paid more? If they were to increase the percentage they make from the revenue it would pay them more but then that would be unfair to the males.
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Fifa sells the commercial rights to showing international football as a package. Men and women games together as the deal.
They don’t split the revenue by gender when they distribute funds to the various Football Associations to be awarded to the players, but the FA’s still pay the men more.
Although, obviously the mens games are more popular with the fans, the money was made before the matches are played by selling the men *and* women games together.
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