Sydney – Australia’s feminine cricketers will get a pay rise this 12 months, directors mentioned, whereas admitting that wages will nonetheless fall effectively wanting the boys’s recreation.
Retainers for Large Bash League gamers will enhance about 14%, Cricket Australia mentioned, and gamers within the home cricket league will see a 22% rise.
Australia captain Meg Lanning mentioned it was vindication.
“Whenever you correctly spend money on feminine sport the outcomes observe and everybody advantages — the sport, the followers and the gamers,” she mentioned.
Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley mentioned the rise was a step ahead.
However he admitted that “there’s nonetheless a spot, there’s nonetheless a extremely huge hole, as in comparison with their male counterparts.”
In whole, the brand new bundle is price 1.2 million Australian {dollars} ($880,000).
The common retainer for males taking part in all codecs is claimed to be about $200,000 per individual, not together with wage.
“We need to hold striving to make it a extremely engaging and credible full-time skilled profession for our up-and-coming feminine cricketers,” Hockley mentioned.
The dispute about equal pay has come into focus in a number of sports activities.
But it surely has change into a high-profile and bitter dispute in United States soccer, the place the ladies’s recreation is extraordinarily fashionable.
The US Soccer Federation final month mentioned it had provided “similar” contracts to its males’s and girls’s nationwide groups as a part of efforts to finish the dispute.
Tennis Grand Slams are among the many sports activities that now provide equal prize cash for women and men.
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