The United States females’s football group is less experienced and has less responsibilities than their male colleagues, according to US Soccer.
Lawyers for the football governing body in the United States have sent the claims in legal documents as part of a suit over equal pay filed by 28 ladies’s nationwide team players – the court trial is expected to begin on 5 May.
It stated that the task of a male footballer on the national team “requires a higher level of ability based upon speed and strength” than their female counterparts.
‘ Plain sexism’
While the guys’s national team has actually never ever won a relevant worldwide title, the females’s side are four-time world champs and have actually won 5 Olympic gold medals.
American females footballers likewise outshined guys in terms of revenue in the last few years: it has emerged that the females’s group created more cash from ticket sales than the guys’s side between 2016 and 2018.
Nevertheless, the male athletes serving the national team are disproportionally paid more, according to legal representatives representing the group of female gamers.
They declare, for instance, that ladies can make a maximum $4,950(₤ 3,858) benefit per friendly game played for the national team, while the guys’s pay topped $13,000(₤10,132).
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