More people watch men's football,so that means there's more money to pay the players more, it's simple math. How people don't get this is beyond me, you can't get paid the same as the men because they are not worth the same, and that has nothing to do with sexism, the market decides what they like more.

Yes, the market decides, simple math, BUT: It's a bit of a chicken/egg situation. I don't know the specifics of every country, I can just add what I know from 'our' women team.

Soccer women in The Netherlands have been held from competing for decades. There was actual 'threats' in play when one of our national teams wanted to enter a female team in the national soccer association - even though no rules said women couldn't play. So women have been 'held from professional support' for literally decades.

Then the women after a lot of fighting (back by our men btw) this thing finally were 'allowed' to enter soccer but there was no money (of course?) to pay them. So they had to do a daytime job and at night/weekends go training. That means: these women are not training at full capacity as their male counterparts do. As long as they don't get paid well *for doing sports( they can't quit their daytime jobs to train full-time. As long as they don't train full-time they won't be 'as good'. And so 'the market' doesn't wanna pay them. And so it's on and on and on.

Chicken and egg.

I don't believe equality of outcome is a desired goal per say, but equality of opportunity is. I always come back to the same image when thinking about this.

PS: Our women became second of the world yesterday wh0000p!
PS2: My dad (The Market) said our women played better than our men last two seasons.
PS3: Our women will get paid equally to our men in 2023, pay will be gradually upgraded the next few years. Did they finally prove their worth?
PS3: The Norwegian men said 'fuck this' at some point and closed the pay gap by giving half of their 'surplus' pay to the women. Just a fun fact to close of this convo :-)