Brazil: Women Footballers to be Paid Like Men

Brazil’s football Confederation (CBF) has announced that it is adopting an equal pay policy for women’s and men’s football teams, which means that Brazil's men's and women's national football teams will receive equal pay and prize money.

Chairman of Brazil’s football association, Rogerio Caboclo said:"The CBF has equaled the prize money and allowances between men's and women's football, which means the women players will earn the same as the men".

"There is no more gender difference, because CBF is treating men and women equally," he added.

The CBF said that it had also appointed two women’s soccer coordinators, Duda Luizelli and Aline Pellegrino.

The association then explained that the new measures will allow national teams participating in the Tokyo Olympics next year, as well as the next World Cups, to be compensated equally.

These new measures, will allow the country’s lesser-known female football players to receive the same compensation and prize money as international stars Neymar Jr., Thiago Silva, Roberto Firmino and others.

This comes months after a judge in the United States dismissed the US women’s team’s lawsuit calling for equal pay.

Other countries that pay both national teams equally are Australia, New Zealand and.

The Brazil women's team reached the World Cup final in 2007 and Olympic finals in 2004 and 2008.