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LYON, France -- Despite a proposal announced on Friday by FIFA president Gianni Infantino to invest $1 billion in the women's game over the next four years and double prize money at the Women's World Cup in 2023, U.S. captain Megan Rapinoe said women soccer players are not respected equally by their sport's international governing body.

"It certainly is not fair," Rapinoe said of the gap in prize money awarded at the men's and women's World Cups. "We should double it now and use that number to double it or quadruple it for the next time. That's what I mean when we talk about, 'Do we feel respected?'"

FIFA doubled the 2015 prize money for the Women's World Cup to $30 million in 2019 and raised the amount awarded to the winning team to $4 million. At last year's men's World Cup, France received $38 million for winning the title from a $400 million purse, and earlier this year, FIFA announced it would raise the men's pool to $440 million for 2022. That means that while the women's purse will increase to a proposed $60 million in 2023, the gap between the men and women will increase the next time around.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-wom...still-not-fair



Then sell more tickets and get more money from sponsorships and TV Deals.

I do find it rather ironic that the women are screaming to be 'respected' by demanding that Men give them more money....'just because.'

The Women dont generate anywhere near the revenue and profit as the Men's game does ergo you get less money commensurate to the revenue that you do generate. Gender is immaterial.