Australia's women footballers to get same base 支払う／賃金 as men
MELBOURNE, June 7 (Reuters) - Australia's professional women サッカー players will be given the same base 支払う／賃金 as men in a one-year 拡張 to a 集団の／共同の 取引ing 協定.
Players in Australia's W-League will have their 年次の 最小限 remuneration 引き上げ（る）d 33 パーセント to A$16,344 ($11,400), with their base hourly 率 matching the men's A-League, Football 連合 Australia and the players union said on Friday.
"We're very proud that we have been able to 錨，総合司会者 the 最小限 条件s for W-League players to those of A-League players," Professional Footballers Australia CEO John Didulica said in a 声明.
"It's a moment in time that the players should be proud of."
The 取引，協定 will 減ずる the gender 支払う／賃金 gap in Australian football but male players stand to earn 意味ありげに more 予定 to their greater time on the pitch.
The W-League's 正規の／正選手 season ran for 14 weeks in 2018/19, just over half the length of the A-League's 27 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs.
The 告示 comes days after the PFA 開始する，打ち上げるd a （選挙などの）運動をする 需要・要求するing 全世界の 治める／統治するing 団体／死体 FIFA 増加する prize money at the 近づいている women's World Cup to 減ずる the glaring gap with the men's tournament.
Gender 支払う／賃金 不平等 in football was put in the スポットライト in March when the U.S. women's team 告訴するd their 国家の 連合 for 申し立てられた／疑わしい gender 差別 three months before their World Cup 肩書を与える defence.
Australia has become a 全世界の leader in 支持する／優勝者ing better 支払う／賃金 and 条件s for 女性（の） 競技者s in 最近の years, after having 大部分は neglected women's sport for １０年間s.
Australia's 契約d women cricketers were given the same base hourly 支払う／賃金 率 as men in a five-year 集団の／共同の 取引ing 協定 struck in 2017, although, like women footballers, they have far より小数の 適切な時期s to earn. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Ian 身代金; Editing by Sudipto Ganguly)
