We’ve heard a lot from the US Women’s National Soccer Team, and a lot of it has been political. One of the mantras that we hear is the women are paid less than the men, and it’s a rallying cry for equal pay.
The cherry they place on top of this political sundae is how the women’s team is the best in the world while the men’s team is moderately competitive. Well here are the facts, and Dennis Prager cites the liberal Los Angeles Times, so it must be true (if you’re a lefty)!
Here are the excerpts:
But there is a reason the male players earn more. Among other things—such as the women’s team’s vote for financial security in the form of guaranteed salaries rather than revenue share—men’s soccer generates far more money than women’s soccer.
-Dennis Prager, The Daily Signal, July 16, 2019
Point #1: The women opted for guaranteed salaries and benefits versus revenue share. There is security here, and it’s not a bad decision, but THEY collectively bargained and voted for this. If they would have chosen revenue share, would they have been paid more? Maybe.
According to the Los Angeles Times: FIFA’s “2018 financial report said it earned revenue of $5.357 billion from the men’s tournament in Russia. … Forbes estimated the Women’s World Cup will generate about $131 million for the four-year cycle ending in 2022.”
-Dennis Prager, The Daily Signal, July 16, 2019
Frederick News Post, July 16, 2019
Point #2: just from the Men’s Soccer World Cup in 2018, FIFA earned $5.357 billion, that’s 41 times more revenue in 1 month than the women will generate in revenue over four years. If the women want to be paid more, then they have to become more popular, EXPONENTIALLY MORE!
Point #3: and this sums it up best. We will quote Denis Prager directly for this one:
So, unless people should be paid according to gender (which they now are in Norway) rather than according to revenue and profits, male soccer players will earn more money than female soccer players.
Dennis Prager, The Daily Signal, July 16, 2019
Our lefty readers will call us sexist, misogynists, and will try to obfuscate the facts. But facts are facts.
If the women want to be paid more, they have to generate more revenue. Even though the US Women’s Team generated a little bit more revenue (for the team) than the men, they are locked into their contracts with FIFA (who is responsible for the revenue stream that eventually pays players).
Until that time that women’s soccer generates equal revenue to the men (for FIFA), based on their equal pay model, they should be paid 1/41 of what the men get paid for the World Cup. Otherwise, they can keep their salaries plus the bonuses from winning the Cup.
The gap is based on revenue, and the choices the team has made. How about a little personal responsibility (check out this example of the opposite of personal responsibility)?
We’re not even going to get into endorsement deals. You see the US Women appearing on Nike and Gatorade ads, not the men. How much do some of the women’s players actually make?
Oh, and if we’re talking about discrimination, how about the CHRISTIAN soccer player, who is considered the finest left fullback in the game? She was excluded from the women’s team because of her beliefs and refusing to wear a gay pride jersey during a friendly game. Yeah, just more hypocrisy from the left.
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