The road to equal pay

‘Equal Pay’ (‘Equal pay’) was the great shout of the final of the last Women’s World Cup in France 2019. In that event, the USA revalidated the title and added its fourth World Cup in an edition that served as a loudspeaker for players like Megan Rapinoe, star of the tournament, will raise their voices in a fight for equality in soccer. A battle that continues today and has made great progress in recent years.

In fact, the North American country recently announced that it has matched the bonuses and allowances of its male and female players in the national team, with a compensation of $24 million for discrimination. A decision that adds them to seven other countries that have already made a move in this area.

The selection of Norway was the first to take the step in 2017, followed by that of New zealand (2018), Australia (2019), Finland (2019), England (2020), Brazil (2020) or Ireland (2021). It would also be the case Netherlandswhose soccer players will earn the same as their counterparts from 2023, the year of the next Women’s World Cup.

The RFEF negotiates the premiums of the Spanish women’s team

And the Spanish National Team? In Spain, the players of La Roja have the same infrastructures, material or professionals. However, the RFEF has not yet officially announced that the payments have been equalized and has not made the amounts public either in the masculine or in the femininealthough it is true that the figures have improved in recent years.

With the 2015 World Cup in Canada, the first in which La Roja participated, diets went from 27 to 40 euros per day (national) and from 40 to 60 (international), a figure that now rises to 150 euros per day , according to AS. This newspaper has also confirmed that the RFEF is negotiating the premiums.

Until now and, according to the figures to which AS has had access, the incentives that the players received were: 300 euros per official match played; 150 euros per official match won; 150 euros per friendly played; 75 euros for a victory in a friendly; and 1,000 euros as image rights for concentration. From the federative entity they have made a strong commitment to the women’s team and who knows if we will soon be in the news as it is the next country to advance to equal pay.