Soccer players at the 2023 Women’s World Cup will on average earn just 25 cents for every dollar earned by men at their World Cup last year, a new CNN analysis found.
Still, that is an improvement: last time, in 2019, it was less than eight cents per dollar, according to data provided by world governing body
committed to paying $42 million to the federations and players’ clubs for Women’s World Cup preparations. When asked for comment, soccer’s world governing body referred CNN to what Benchmarking Report, nearly a quarter of 225 clubs across 25 national leagues have mainly amateur players, while the rest work with a mix of professionals – who have an official contract with the club and are paid more than their incurred expenses – and amateurs. More than half of the surveyed federations still don’t have regulations on players’ minimum wages.
’s Council has 37 members, 30 of whom are men. All but one of those women sitting on those decision-making bodies fill quota seats, specifically reserved for women. And nearly three quarters of head coaches across all women’s soccer leagues are still male, with no women at all in top positions in Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands and Norway, according to the 2022
lifted the World Cup trophy. “I think you need to see [the increase in prize money at this World Cup] in the context of probably a decade of actions that happened domestically, obviously in the United States, but … in all kinds of countries, players have made these pushes with their unions as a collective to increase the standards in their country,” FIFPRO’s Baer-Hoffmann told CNN’s Amanda Davies.
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