The American women’s football team sued the American Football Association for “Waterloo” in the case of gender discrimination. The judge who accepted the case rejected the girls’ request for more remuneration, which also triggered the US Democratic presidential candidate Biden, american men’s national team and other “public anger”.
Xinhua News Agency, Washington, May 4 (reporter Wang Jiyi) last weekend, the American women’s football team sued the American Football Association for “Waterloo” in the case of gender discrimination “, the judge who accepted the case rejected the girls’ request for more remuneration, which also triggered the” public anger “of many parties, such as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of the United States, Biden, and the national team of the United States men’s football”.
Judge Krausner, who accepted the case, said that the documents provided by the American women’s football team were not enough to prove that they were treated unfairly in terms of remuneration, at the same time, the appeal of women’s football team for gender discrimination in terms of competition venue conditions will not be accepted. However, the court accepted the players’ demands for unfair treatment of travel conditions, including flight conditions, hotel accommodation and medical security. The formal trial will be held in June, while the American women’s football team said it would request the appeal court to overturn the judgment, which may postpone the trial of the case until 2021.
For this, Biden directly joined the American Football Association on social media and encouraged the American women’s football team not to give up. He said: “American women’s football girls, please don’t give up and continue the struggle. This has not been decided yet. The American Football Association also asks you to listen well, and immediately equal pay for equality between men and women and equal work. Otherwise, if I become the next president of the United States, the government funding for the 2026 Men’s World Cup will not be counted on!”
In addition, the American men’s football team is also uneven for women’s football players. In a statement issued on the 4th, the American men’s national team players union said: “In the past year and a half, American men’s football players have been recommending to the American Football Association that men’s and women’s national teams receive equal pay for equal work. We understand the women’s football team and support their practices.”
American tennis celebrity Billy Jane King also spoke out to encourage American women’s football. She said: “This is just a difficulty that will inevitably be encountered on the road to success. The Road to striving for rights and interests will definitely encounter ups and downs, learn from experience, and then continue to fight for it. As the American women’s football team, you not only have great influence in the field of football, but also represent all the people who work for equality.”
More than a year ago, the American Football Association was brought to court on the grounds that American women were enough to be discriminated against by sex and “equal pay for equal work” compared with men’s football, and claimed 66 million US dollars (about 0.466 billion RMB) from the American Football Association..
The American women’s football team listed the data from 2013 to 2016 in the litigation documents, and believed that the income of the members of the women’s national team was about one third of that of the men’s football players. According to the document, this phenomenon of equal pay is more obvious in the World Cup. In the 2014 men’s football World Cup, the American men’s football team stopped the top 16, and the Football Association gave a prize of more than 500 million US dollars. However, the American women’s football team won the championship in the 2015 Canadian women’s football World Cup, the bonus is only 1.72 million dollars. In addition, the bonus for the promotion of the men’s and Women’s World Cup final table is also very different.
The American Football Association has always insisted that different pay for equal work is caused by different “collective bargaining negotiation terms” between the national men’s football team and the National Women’s football team, so it is impossible to make the same comparison in many aspects.