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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In simple terms, people are less willing to pay to watch live, pay for watching on cable, advertise during and sponsor women’s football/soccer. The vast difference in revenue is down to advertising, sponsoring and broadcasting rights. The simple but politically incorrect reason is the women’s football is not as exciting to watch as men’s football. Having watched the recent World Cup, I have to agree. Less spectacular goals, slower pace, a very high amount of missed passes and so on. Basically in cold hard business terms the women have mid range B brand business at the top their market but are upset that a premier brand that does ok earns more money. It’s simply the market at work, not discrimination. But they have decided that this is unfair and they should earn the same despite making far lower revenue figures. But as long as an amateur under 18 boys team can beat a women’s pro national team by a fair margin, there’s just no way their games are worth that much money,
The opposite side is fashion models where women get paid 8-20x more than men. The top earning female fashion model in 2018 earned more by herself than the entire top ten of Male models combined. For the same reasons, female models get a way more advertising revenue than men. But of course no calls for equality here.
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