{"id":35710,"date":"2022-12-23T18:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=35710"},"modified":"2022-12-23T18:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:37:44","slug":"all-about-womens-sports-equal-pay-for-the-uswnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2022\/12\/23\/all-about-womens-sports-equal-pay-for-the-uswnt\/","title":{"rendered":"All About Women’s Sports: Equal Pay for the USWNT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Claire Guest<\/em><\/p>\n

To close the pay gap between the Women\u2019s and Men\u2019s teams, the U.S. National Soccer teams mutually decided to split their World Cup bonuses. With the historic collective bargaining agreement reached in May between U.S. Soccer and its national teams, the USWNT will receive half the prize money of the USMNT bonus money from the 2022 World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the Men\u2019s World Cup contains a much larger bonus pool than the Women\u2019s World Cup, this pooling of money enables both teams to equally receive the same amount of money, despite the unequal treatment by FIFA.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, the 2018 men\u2019s tournament had a total prize pot of $400 million, while the 2019 women\u2019s tournament pot had only $30 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy ideal vision is for FIFA to equalize not only the World Cup prize money, but to equalize their investment in the women\u2019s and girls\u2019 game,\u201d U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone told Just Women\u2019s Sports<\/i> in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the USMNT advancing past the group stage, they earned $13 million dollars. The USWNT and USMNT will split this profit, with each team receiving $6.5 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

This $6.5 million is more money than the USWNT received for winning the 2015 and 2019 World Cups <\/span>combined<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Women’s World Cup coming in 2023, the USWNT and the USMNT will also split the Women\u2019s teams bonuses. The further they go in the tournament, the more money they will receive from FIFA.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s World Cup will receive $30 million dollars as a total pool, which is double the amount 2015. Since the USWNT were champions of the 2019 World Cup, they received only $4 million. If the prize money stayed the same, the USWNT and the USMNT would each take around $2 million dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n

This difference between the Women\u2019s team getting $2 million dollars for winning the whole tournament, compared to the USMNT receiving $13 million dollars for making it to the group stage highlights FIFA\u2019s unfair pay disparity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Claire Guest To close the pay gap between the Women\u2019s and Men\u2019s teams, the U.S. National Soccer teams mutually decided to split their World Cup bonuses. With the historic collective bargaining agreement reached in May between U.S. Soccer and its national teams, the USWNT will receive half the prize money of the USMNT bonus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21488,"featured_media":35713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1024,1035,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35714,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35710\/revisions\/35714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}