This year, the total purse for the Women’s World Cup was $30 million. For the 2018 (men’s) World Cup, FIFA gave out $400 million in prize money. The numbers are a slap in the face, especially in the wake of the team’s titanic triumph in France. Their protest for equal pay stems from their own lived experiences: a set of circumstances deeply entrenched in the structural sexism that defines soccer’s governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). What these political buccaneers of the pitch have done is take a struggle that women have painstakingly agitated around for decades-the seemingly simple concept of equal pay for equal work-and turned it from a moribund talking point into a cause célèbre. The players have shown themselves to be more than willing to not only work their way to a World Cup triumph, but also to continuously raise the issues of equal pay and equal rights in a fearless and appealing manner that’s just devastating to defenders of the status quo. This is a team that has joyously embraced the mantle. Its impact will be measured not in World Cups won, but in laws and lives changed. Women’s National Soccer Team will be remembered throughout the annals of history as a social movement that happened to play soccer. The article below, which ran in the Fall 2019 issue of Ms. In May, after a long battle, the women’s team finally struck a labor deal that will close the pay gap between them and the men’s team and ensure equal salaries and bonuses, including for the World Cup.
The bulk of the settlement is, in fact, back pay-a “tacit admission that compensation for the men’s and women’s teams had been unequal for years,” wrote the New York Times. Soccer Federation over their equal pay lawsuit. In February, the players reached a $24 million settlement with the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team players have repeatedly complained that they’ve been getting as little as 40 percent of the salary their male counterparts get-especially considering the women’s team has four World Cup titles and the men’s team has … none. (L-R) Sam Mewis #3 of the United States, Adrianna Franch #21 and captain Megan Rapinoe #15 with their tops turned inside out as part of the team’s equal pay campaign before the SheBelieves Cup match against Japan at Toyota Stadium on Main Frisco, Texas.
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