Women's Football - Wage Disparity Debate

[Bobbins]

Agree with both those points.

It's been said for years but the goal sizes being the same are a joke as well. Make women keepers look inept when the reality is they will never be physically big or agile enough to fill the space.

See: Chelsea's first goal. Good strike from range, but the ball literally just goes straight over the top of the City keeper and there's nothing she can do save from spending the whole game literally stood on her goal line. That shot was directly at her, just over the top of her maximum reach, and yet not over the top of the crossbar (there was some dip).

For a male keeper that's a regulation tip over the bar.

 

[Mr.D]

Just to bring this one back.

Man City v Chelsea on BBC One right now. Women's Community Shield.

The standard, as expected, is generally fairly poor. Nothing inherently wrong with that.

But the Chelsea striker, Sam Kerr - apparently one of the best strikers in women's football worldwide. Her goal record at club and international level is ridiculous (verging on more than a goal a game!).

She is absolutely awful. Chance after chance she's shanked into the shadow realm. Sure players have poor form or aren't match fit etc. But this is truly shocking.

Just seen this post, switched over to BBC1 and Cinderella is on. How apt.

 

[Thewobbler]

Brazil women footballers to receive equal pay

Marta to be paid same as Neymar; Brazil FA president: There will be no more gender difference in remuneration between men and women.

www.skysports.com

 

[sausage]

Brazil women footballers to receive equal pay

Marta to be paid same as Neymar; Brazil FA president: There will be no more gender difference in remuneration between men and women.

www.skysports.com

Plot twist - wage drop for the samba stars

 

[wirE]

Brazil women footballers to receive equal pay

Marta to be paid same as Neymar; Brazil FA president: There will be no more gender difference in remuneration between men and women.

www.skysports.com

I'm glad this is happening. It will never happen in the League system, but to being able to get paid equal to what the men are when playing for your country, is a good step into the right direction.

I advocate that they also start dropping the term 'women' in the team names. Shouldn't make any difference whether you're a man or a woman. You play for your club - equal.

 

[SheffieldAndy]

Plot twist - wage drop for the samba stars

And the FA has just announced it’s the same for the England men’s and women’s teams (and has been since January). If this has already been mentioned in the thread, apologies, but I didn’t have time to scan back through.

 

[tommo84]

England have followed suit, which feels like the right thing to do but I have a genuine question (which I can’t land on an answer for):

The men’s England team have donated their England match fees to charity for many years (a few journos pointed this out in one of the recent tournaments) - now I don’t know if the women do this or not (I suspect they don’t as otherwise why is there any issue?) but if the men’s team are donating their fees to charity and the women aren’t (because they earn less from the clubs and sponsorships), is that really equality?

I suppose it’s as close to equality as the international game can get and is an easy win for the FA. Curious to see if that aspect gets any news coverage.

 

[sausage]

And the FA has just announced it’s the same for the England men’s and women’s teams (and has been since January). If this has already been mentioned in the thread, apologies, but I didn’t have time to scan back through.

England men's team donate theirs to charities don't they? Raises another complex question if that's still the case.

Edit: @tommo84 also on that same train of thought

 

[SheffieldAndy]

England men's team donate theirs to charities don't they? Raises another complex question if that's still the case.

Edit: @tommo84 also on that same train of thought

I’d imagine that they’ll cite that wages are a lot, lot lower for their main club contracts so pay to ply for the national team is less of a luxury payment than it is to the men’s team. But I may be wrong.

 

[SlotBadger]

I advocate that they also start dropping the term 'women' in the team names. Shouldn't make any difference whether you're a man or a woman. You play for your club - equal.

I agree that everyone plays for one club but there'd have to be some unique identifier to distinguish between the two teams.

 

[sausage]

I wonder if they're also going to pay that one replacing the shitter Neville the same wages as Southgate

 

[Danny1]

I've always thought that wage parity between men & women in high profile sports is a bit of a silly argument. It's always down to purely how marketable the sport and person(s) are. In football, the mens game generates millions and millions more, therefore obviously this will have an affect on the wages.

However, take Tennis and the Williams sisters who are the best ever women players return huge sums of money because they are easy to market and obviously incredibly successful.

Takeaway the sex in this argument and there is wage disparity in all sports anyway. You will have players like Hudson-Odoi earning £100k per week without ever really doing anything in his career, and then you have the likes of Hugo Lloris earning the same despite captaining his country in winning the world cup & playing over 700 games for both club & country at the highest level.

I am totally for equality in wages when it comes to the normal every day types of jobs, however once a person/team becomes an asset and a marketable one at that, then of course things will never be equal, even within the same sex.

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Not really on the original subject, but I'm so bored that I'm currently watching the US College Championship final between North Carolina and Florida State.
Going into this match NC had conceded 3 goals all season and only been behind for 22 seconds.
2-0 down after 6 mins...