WOMEN'S WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS - FIFA PAID TEAM $33 MILLION LESS THAN MEN'S TEAM

GREENVILLE NEWS LETTER TO THE EDITOR 
BY BRUCE CHAMBERS

July 2015

The Women's World Cup was so much fun to watch this year and the American Women displayed for the world some incredible talent and beat Japan to win the World Championship, even beating Germany to get to the championship who was ranked #1 in the world. The U.S. Women's National Team won the Women's World Cup two times before, in 1991 and 1999. How many World Championships have the men won, and the answer is none, Many of the Presidential Candidates are talking about women's pay disparity and the pay to the Women World Champions is a prime example the pay disparity. As the dust settled after they won, it was so discouraging to read that the prize money to the Women's team for winning the World Championship was $2 million and last summer the World Champion German Men's Team got $35 million for winning. The NY Times stated the United States' 5-2 victory over Japan in the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday was seen by 25.4 million viewers which was the most watched US soccer game in history, even more than the viewers for the recent NBA finals between Cleveland – Golden State, and even more than last year’s World Series. It is also a disgrace and disparity that the men's team play on soft manicured grass like a putting green, but the women's teams played on artificial turf which causes really bad burns when falling. The alleged scandalous ridden International Federation of Association Football [FIFA] is the primary cause of this discriminatory policy against women. Congresswoman Maloney recently wrote to President Blatter of International Federation of Football [FIFA] and requested to stop its discriminatory policy against women. In Representative Maloney's request, she asked FIFA to follow the example of tennis where men and women are paid equally at Wimbledon, US Open, and other major tournaments. This is a prime example of where women around the world are accustomed to earning less for the same work.

Bruce Chambers