Janine Beckie and Christine Sinclair are calling attention to the pay disparities between the Canada women’s and men’s national teams.
In 2021, the men’s team was given just over $11 million for expenses while the women received just shy of $5.1 million. Both were increases from 2020, although the men’s team’s jumped from $3.08 million while the women’s sat at $2.8 million in 2020.
That means that the gap between the two teams’ funding grew from roughly $267,000 to nearly $6 million.
“Numbers don’t lie,” wrote Beckie.
The CANWNT has since gone on strike, and has said that it will miss the SheBelieves Cup which is set to begin next Thursday.
Other players have also called out Canada Soccer’s lack of equality despite previous claims that they would do more to ensure that the women were paid equal. Beckie also tweeted out a video on Friday, in which Canada Soccer president Nick Bontis goes on the record prioritizing equal pay.
“The other right thing to do is to make sure whatever we pay the men, we pay the women. Because that’s the right thing to do,” he says.
