{"id":314692,"date":"2019-07-08T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=314692"},"modified":"2019-07-09T16:06:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:06:34","slug":"the-pay-gap-in-soccer-is-economics-not-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/08\/the-pay-gap-in-soccer-is-economics-not-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pay Gap in Soccer Is Economics, Not Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Let me touch on this equal pay in soccer business. I went back to the archives, March 7th, 2019, a story at Forbes. \u201cRevenue Disparity Explains Pay Disparity Between Soccer World Cup\u2019s Men And Women.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Let me just give you a pull quote here. “There is a big difference in the revenue available to pay the,\u201d men\u2019s team and the women\u2019s team. \u201cThe Women\u2019s World Cup brought in almost $73 million.\u201d Television rights sales, advertising revenue, licensed merchandise, tickets. The grand total of all revenue generated by the women\u2019s World Cup, $73 million, of which the players got 13%.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe 2010,\u201d for example, \u201cmen\u2019s World Cup in South Africa made almost $4 billion, of which 9% went to the players.\u201d So there\u2019s no political bias going on here. It\u2019s simply a matter of money. The women\u2019s World Cup brought in $73 million. This is some years ago, recent stats. And the men\u2019s World Cup, four billion. So obviously the pay gap is going to be significant here, and it\u2019s not because of politics at all. It\u2019s economics.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they just can\u2019t let it go. Here you have a phenomenal athletic achievement, the women\u2019s U.S. soccer team winning the World Cup. They gotta politicize it. They cannot just celebrate a brilliant and great athletic performance. Oh, no. No. We gotta talk about how the women are discriminated against, how the women are disrespected, how the women are not given their fair shot.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about equal pay. They don\u2019t even care about these women. Equal pay is one of these illusionary issues that the left can\u2019t let go of. In their world women still don\u2019t make what men do. They still run around with this bogus stat that women make 71 cents for every dollar men make. And it\u2019s not true anymore. Go look at the Obama administration and look at the pay disparity, or the Clinton administration or the Hillary staff, wherever you look, in Democrat organizations, the women do make less. Nobody calls \u2019em out on it.<\/p>\n

So now here you have the U.S. women\u2019s soccer team, wins the World Cup, and it\u2019s been politicized. “It\u2019s unfair. Why can\u2019t they just pay the same as they pay the men?” The battle cry has gone out. And then some women are, “It\u2019s not just about the pay. It\u2019s about respect. This is a sure sign the women don\u2019t get the same amount of respect.\u201d With who? Everybody I know that watched this thing was cheering to the rafters. Everybody was pleased. Everybody was proud. The U.S. women\u2019s soccer team wins the World Cup, and not for the first time.<\/p>\n

Here comes the left to totally destroy it, to diminish it, to turn it into a political issue. They do this with everything. Let me give you the numbers again. I went back. I remembered seeing something in March in Forbes about this<\/a>. Let me just give you a pull quote. It\u2019s how the revenue disparity — and it exists — how it\u2019s explained. And the numbers here are for I think 2010, 2012. But if the numbers are different today, the proportions are not. And it\u2019s all about the available revenue. The pot of money from which everybody is gonna get paid in women\u2019s soccer versus men\u2019s soccer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The women\u2019s World Cup brought in about $73 million. That\u2019s everything. That\u2019s revenue generated for ticket sales, TV rights, licensed merchandise, you name it. Everything all-in generated $73 million. The players\u2019 cut of that is 13%.<\/p>\n

The 2010, for example, men\u2019s World Cup in South Africa made four billion. We\u2019re talking about two different pots from which everybody involved gets paid. Not just the players. You have FIFA. You have this bunch of European board of directors, people that, like a bunch of European organizations, they sit there and do nothing except look aristocratic, and they get money for it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same old story. A bunch of grubbers that are hanging along doing nothing claiming credit for all the organizational and back office, front office functions. And they get their cut; the players get their cut. But there\u2019s a big difference in 73 million and four billion.<\/p>\n

Now, the women\u2019s cut of $73 million is 13%. The men\u2019s cut of the four billion is 9%. You could say that the women are being paid more, if you use the percentage as the qualifier or the calculator. But of course nobody will because 13% of $73 million is still gonna be less than 9% of four billion. So then you have to ask, well, why is men\u2019s soccer, the men\u2019s World Cup, why is it generating four billion and the women\u2019s World Cup is only generating $73 million?<\/p>\n

Well, if you listen to feminazis, “Well, it\u2019s evidence here that there\u2019s no respect for women, there\u2019s not as much interest in women\u2019s soccer. People are not willing to pay as much for it.” Well, why is that? And then you start getting in to the tall grass. That\u2019s when you start getting into the weeds.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s the same argument, “How can you justify paying a baseball player $20 million a year and a teacher $70,000?” Market speaks. There\u2019s an answer for it. Some people may not like it, but the market answers every question. The market explains all. Why is somebody paying a baseball player $20 million? ‘Cause whoever\u2019s paying him thinks he\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n

So in the big scheme of things, for you individually for a corporation or company, small business, you\u2019re worth what somebody will pay you. Not what some scale says you\u2019re worth. Not some outfit charting various lines of work and assigning financial values to them. The market does that. And you\u2019re worth what somebody will pay you. And if you can convince somebody that it\u2019s worth their while to pay you $20 million, then it can be said you deserve it.<\/p>\n

But why does a teacher make whatever 50, 70,000 versus — look. I could give you the answers, but there\u2019s no satisfaction. It wouldn\u2019t please anybody, but the bottom line here is you\u2019ve got two different pots. There just isn\u2019t as much — gonna whisper this — there isn\u2019t as much overall interest in women\u2019s soccer.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care about Title IX, either. Title IX was supposed to erase all this, see. Title IX was supposed to equalize things. But imagine that. Legislation didn\u2019t equalize the market. So the left is disappointed that their great legislation, Title IX, whatever it was, didn\u2019t fix the disparity.<\/p>\n

So how do you change the level of interest factor? Same thing with the NBA versus the women\u2019s NBA. Same thing with men\u2019s professional baseball and women\u2019s professional baseball — sorry. There isn\u2019t one. Same thing with the National Football League for men and the NFL for women — uh, there isn\u2019t one. Why not? Would anybody pay to go watch it?<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, it may sound cruel, it may sound unfair, but the marketplace is the marketplace. You carve out what you can from it. You choose a business to go into because you like it or because you think it\u2019s gonna have a huge payoff. Whatever your calculation. But there are certain things you\u2019re gonna be able to know going in.<\/p>\n

Then if you know those things and they\u2019re not satisfactory, you try to upset the applecart, in this case I want to make women\u2019s soccer as important and valuable as men\u2019s soccer. Okay, have at it. The market\u2019s waiting for you. Go flood it with your ideas and see if you can do it. If you can, great. If you can\u2019t, it\u2019s not America\u2019s fault. It\u2019s not society\u2019s fault. It\u2019s not the cultures fault. It\u2019s not politics\u2019 fault. It\u2019s not Title IX\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

Same thing with this program starting in 1988. Nobody was demanding it. Had to create the demand. All kinds of people were already doing it except that they weren\u2019t. Talk radio was everywhere, but it wasn\u2019t at the same time, not the way it was done here. You pick a market, you go into it, you try to expand it, carve out your place in it. There are no guarantees and there\u2019s no unfairness.<\/p>\n

Well, a lot of people think there is. But there\u2019s nothing unfair in this. It just represents the market. Yet here comes the left politicizing all of this. Another reason why United States just is inferior. The United States is unfair. Why the United States is still filled with bigoted and racist, sexist people. And the never-ending harangue from the left continues about what a rotten place we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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