The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) is under heavy criticism due to the large wage gap between women and men during the World Cup, as the player receives a quarter of what the player earns.
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FIFA has allocated $110 million in prize money for the final of the ninth FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, which will be held in Australia and New Zealand from Thursday to 20 August 2023, of which $49 million will go to individual players and $61 million to federations.
The International Federation of Football Associations allocated $440 million in prize money for the Qatar 2022 men’s World Cup, so the Australian women’s team criticized FIFA ahead of the start of the 2023 Women’s World Cup and demanded equality between the sexes in terms of financial prizes presented at the global event.
It turns out that the players of the 2023 World Cup, which will be hosted by Australia and New Zealand, will receive only 25 cents for every dollar earned by the players of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
However, this is an improvement, as in the 2019 World Cup, female players earned less than eight cents for every male dollar.
Each player participating in the 2023 World Cup will receive at least $30,000, but the amount will increase with the arrival of front-line roles in the World Cup with their country’s national team.
Reasons for the gender gap
Although the women’s game is growing more and more, it is still far from the men’s game, and this is one of the main reasons why the gender gap is still relevant in the most important tournaments around the world.
Earlier, FIFA reported that the media had not submitted suitable offers to obtain the rights to broadcast the current Women’s World Cup.
The International Federation of Football Associations has said that there are 20 to 100 times fewer bids for the Women’s World Cup than for the Men’s World Cup.
And he pointed out that broadcast providers were offering between $100 million and $200 million to get the rights to broadcast the Men’s World Cup, while they were only offering $1 million to $10 million for the Women’s World Cup.
The International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) recently announced a decline in ticket sales for the Women’s World Cup matches, especially in New Zealand.
However, more than 42,000 spectators attended the opening match of the ninth FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 between New Zealand and Norway (1-0), which brought them together today, Thursday, at the Eden Park stadium in Kingsland.
Source: agencies