“I want to emancipate myself as a woman without being an emancipate. Sometimes the roar is too big for me,” said the multiple world and European champion from Germany on Wednesday in Aachen at a discussion event. “I would like it to be a bit more sustainable.”
In the USA, the national players have won a collective agreement that guarantees them equal pay. But you can’t compare that, said the 44-year-old. “Women’s football has a completely different status in the USA – and men’s football too. It’s above everything here with us,” she said. “Sometimes we overpace and just throw slogans out. I find that difficult. We’re on the right track, but everything has to go step by step.”
In Europe, the football associations follow different paths. Due to the significantly lower revenues in women’s football, the ÖFB currently sees no economic possibility of aligning the premiums with those of men. “There is no cake to divide,” said Bernhard Neuhold, head of ÖFB-Wirtschaftsbetriebe GmbH, the APA. “The men have this cake.” The association is still paying the ÖFB national players “much higher” EM bonuses this year than at EURO 2017.
Source: Nachrichten
