The headline: 'How come the Women's World Cup winner will get $4.3M, while the Men's winner got $42M?"
Answer: FIFA brought in 7.5 billion from the last Mens' World Cup Cycle , while the women's will bring in 500 million.
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But the article points out:
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Last year, U.S. Soccer, the women's national team and the men's national team came together for a historic and first-of-its-kind deal: The two teams would pool their FIFA prize money together and then split it equally among both teams. Although FIFA prize money is still unequal, the teams have chosen to split it equally.
For instance, the U.S. men won around $13 million from FIFA for reaching the round of 16 at the World Cup in Qatar last year. If the women suffer a historic early exit and get knocked out in the round of 16 of this ongoing Women's World Cup, they would win around $1.9 million. But after pooling that money together with the men's money, and after giving 10% to U.S. Soccer to support youth programs, the USWNT would actually receive around $6.7 million, which will be more money than FIFA will award the champion of this tournament ($4.3 million).
So they're already getting much more money than they deserve, if we base that on earnings.
Will Cain on ESPN said it best a few years ago:
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"The women got paid out from a pool of $30 million from the womens World Cup," Cain said on ESPN's First Take.
"The men would draw from a pool of $400 million. $400 million and $30 million ... why is that?
"It's because the men's World Cup generates $6 billion in revenue, the Women's World Cup generates $131 million in revenue.
"If you want to talk about pay disparity, the Women's World Cup players get paid out 20 per cent of the total revenue.
"The men get paid out seven per cent. As a percentage point they're getting much more.
"The problem is, for anybody desiring equal pay, and by the way I think equal pay is a ridiculous concept in and of itself, if the women generate more revenue they should get paid more than the men.
"Don't strive for getting the same, strive for getting what you're worth. And if you're worth more then get more."
