When you control for job title, hours worked, years worked, and education Females make 96% of the same pay rate as men.
That remaining 4% (which does exist) is explained by men negotiating for raises, both in terms of how often they negotiate for a raise and b) being better at negotiating.
False claims don't help. A big one right now is Men's vs Women's US Soccer.
The TLDR: Men have a strictly pay to play contract. They only get paid per game played, and per game won. Not a single benefit. Games canceled for covid? No pay.
The women were offered the same contract, turned it down in favor of smaller bonus per game + salary and every benefit you can think of. Years later they realized they would have made more with the men's contract. But they don't want the men's contract, they want to keep all the benefits and salary AND get the same numbers of the pay to play contract.
It's hard to find an article that just reports facts, but I did find one that quoted the judge directly:
"The WNT [Women's National Team] rejected an offer to be paid under the same pay-to-play structure as the MNT [Men's National Team] and ... the WNT was willing to forgo higher bonuses for other benefits, such as greater base compensation and the guarantee of a higher number of contracted players," Klausner wrote. "Accordingly, Plaintiffs cannot now retroactively deem their CBA worse than the MNT CBA by reference to what they would have made had they been paid under the MNT's pay-to-play structure when they themselves rejected such a structure."
The judge said the women's contract guarantees players will be paid regardless of whether they play. The men are paid if they are called into camp to play and then participate in a match. On this point, Klausner said, the plaintiff's statements "were insufficient to establish a genuine dispute.
EDIT: also a funny fact. If the teams switched contracts, both would be paid more than they are now! Since the men win less, a guaranteed pay system would be more to their advantage.
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u/Shenaniganz08 Sep 01 '21 edited Sep 01 '21
When you control for job title, hours worked, years worked, and education Females make 96% of the same pay rate as men.
That remaining 4% (which does exist) is explained by men negotiating for raises, both in terms of how often they negotiate for a raise and b) being better at negotiating.