Image by youthvoices.net By Taylor Godfrey
Staff Writer A nationwide campaign to pay women’s soccer teams fairly quickly gained FIFA and the rest of the world's attention. “This is what we call a breakout campaign,” said Shaunna Thomas. Roughly 60,000 people signed the campaign in the first 24 hours -- more than twice the signatures a typical Ultraviolet campaign receives on its first day. The Campaign is all about the fight for equal rights amongst men and womens USA soccer teams. The U.S. women's soccer team not only won the World Cup it also broke TV records. The tournament's final match was the most-watched soccer game ever, including men's games, on a single U.S. television network. More Americans watched the Women's World Cup final than the most recent NBA or Stanley Cup finals. Yet the pay for women's teams is significantly less than the pay for men's teams. FIFA paid the winning women's team a $2 million prize, which is four times less than the $8 million it pays men's teams that lose in the first round. The total payout for the Women's world champs this year is $15 million, while FIFA awarded a total of $576 million to men's teams in the World Cup last year. FIFA did not respond to the campaign right away, but after thoughtful thinking the federation states "The comparison between the prize money of the men's World Cup in Brazil to the women's World Cup in Canada, that's not even a question I will answer because it is nonsense," Valcke said at a news conference. "We played 30th (men's) World Cup in 2014 and we are playing the seventh women's World Cup, so things can grow step-by-step. We are still another 23 World Cups before potentially women should receive the same amount as men." The campaign also argues that FIFA’s logic in incorrect because the US Women's team started many year after the Men’s team, so women can never really be expected to be paid equal to men. Comments are closed.
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