From now Brazil will pay its men and women footballers equally for representing the national team. Dipto Paul Reports.
Brazil’s football federation announced this on Wednesday and becomes the fourth nation over the world who maintains this equality for the players.
“The CBF has equaled the prize money and allowances between men’s and women’s football, which means the women players will earn the same as the men,” said the federation’s president Rogerio Caboclo.
Before Brazil; Australia, Norway, and New Zealand decided to pay men and women players the same amount of money.
Pia Sundhage, Association football manager of Brazil women’s team said after the announcement, “This is historic. Being a part of this is very special, I’m very grateful.”
“It will be proportionally the same as what FIFA proposes for women, that is to say, there will be no more gender difference in remuneration between men and women,” said Caboclo, the federation president.
Last year, the Brazilian professional football authority permanently allocated equal prize money for women and men.
Though US women footballers raised the same equal pay issue earlier this year, their demand was rejected by the court.
However, there is still an equality gap remaining in club football for men and women.