Councils in the UK are facing compensation bills running into billions of pounds over equal pay claims, campaigners have warned, as they called on the government to intervene. The GMB union is supporting more than 3,000 equal pay claims against Birmingham city council, and has disputes against councils in Coventry, […]
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England Women’s cricketers will get EQUAL pay in match fees from this week… as ECB announces milestone move after ‘ground-breaking’ Women Ashes series England women players will make as much as the men from match fees The ECB said the change is effective immediately from series against Sri Lanka Women […]
CNN — Shania Twain is standing up for others in country music. The legendary star in the genre used her acceptance speech for the Equal Play Award at Sunday’s CMT Awards to call for more equity and diversity in the country music industry. “When I wrote the phrase ‘Man I […]
Fifa confirmed last week that it is tripling the prize money available for teams competing at the Women’s World Cup in July and August to $110m (£90m) and is committed to making the men’s and women’s World Cup prize pots equal by the 2026 and 2027 editions. The Guardian sat […]
Players for Wales’s men’s and women’s football teams will be paid the same for playing for their country after a deal was struck by Wales’s governing body. The agreement with the Football Association of Wales (FAW) comes into effect immediately and will cover up to the 2026 Fifa men’s World […]
The House has passed a bill that ensures equal compensation for US women competing in international events, a piece of legislation that came out of the US women’s soccer team’s long battle to be paid as much as the men. The Equal Pay for Team USA Act, passed late Wednesday, […]
Perhaps it’s not fair to call the US women’s soccer team’s $24m “equal pay” settlement a Pyrrhic victory. Let’s instead call it a pyromaniac’s victory. A lot of money was piled up and set on fire. Thanks to a filing by the US women’s legal team, we can now quantify […]
German chancellor Olaf Scholz has made a push for equal pay for female international footballers after the team made it to the final of the recent European Championships. “My position on this is clear,” Scholz said after a meeting on Tuesday with the German Football Association (DFB) to discuss the […]