{"id":12745,"date":"2015-07-08T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12745"},"modified":"2015-07-08T07:58:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:58:22","slug":"the-economics-of-the-american-womens-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-the-american-womens-football-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of The American Women\u2019s Football Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/070815_1150_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"617\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The American women might have won the world cup, but they&#8217;re losing the battle against wage inequality writes Mary Pilon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Female football players have salary ranges from $6,000-$30,000 which means that some of the players are earning less than the poverty line in the cities they compete in.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast the men have a salary cap of $3.1 million.<\/li>\n<li>Women are also unable to make much money from brand endorsements. One American forward earns $92,500 a year after endorsements. Their male counterparts can make millions.<\/li>\n<li>What makes it particularly unfortunate is that the women&#8217;s team seems to be more successful than the men&#8217;s, being ranked #1 in the world, compared with #27 for the men.<\/li>\n<li>While this is all largely because women&#8217;s football generates less attention than the men&#8217;s game, this maybe a chicken and egg problem. Few people may watch the game because few broadcasters properly advertize it.<\/li>\n<li>The attention that female tennis players get indicates that there is a market for women&#8217;s sports if broadcasters are willing to invest in it.<\/li>\n<li>The worst comparison is the prize money. When Germany won the men&#8217;s World Cup last year they got $35 million. This year&#8217;s female winners received $2 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about how other sports deal with this problem and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/world-cup-women-pay-gap-gender-equality\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/world-cup-women-pay-gap-gender-equality\/\">Politico<\/a><span style=\"color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American women might have won the world cup, but they&#8217;re losing the battle against wage inequality writes Mary Pilon: Female football players have salary ranges from $6,000-$30,000 which means that some of the players are earning less than the poverty line in the cities they compete in. In contrast the men have a salary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/070815_1150_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12748,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions\/12748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}