サッカーアイルランド代表も男女同一賃金「画期的」

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】アイルランドサッカー協会（ＦＡＩ）は３０日、代表戦における選手の出場給に関して、同国の男子と女子チームに同一賃金を支払うことで合意したと発表した。（写真は資料写真）
　契約の一環として男子チームは試合給の減額に合意し、それによってＦＡＩが女子チームの給与を増額できる形となった。
　ＦＡＩは「アイルランドの男子代表と女子代表の選手が、代表戦において即時に同額の試合給を受け取ることになった。アイルランドスポーツ界にとって画期的な契約だ」と発表。女子代表のキャプテンを務めるケイティ・マケイブは、「アイルランドサッカー界にとって素晴らしい日」とコメントした。
　アイルランドの他にはイングランドやブラジル、オーストラリア、ノルウェー、ニュージーランドも、すでに代表戦の試合給に関して男女同額を公約している。
　ＦＡＩによれば、同一賃金は９月の代表ウイークから適用となるという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/09/01-10:36）

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) hailed on Monday a ground-breaking deal for Irish sport after an agreement was reached for the Republic or Ireland's male and female footballers to receive equal pay for internationals.
As part of the deal, the men's team have agreed to reduce their match fees with the FAI matching that contribution to increase pay for the female players.
The Football Association of Ireland is proud to announce that players representing the Republic of Ireland senior men and senior women?s international teams will receive the same match fees on international duty with immediate effect in a ground-breaking deal for Irish sport, the FAI said in a statement.
England, Brazil, Australia, Norway and New Zealand are among the other nations to have publicly committed to paying their men and women players the same amount for earning a senior cap.
?This is a great day for Irish football, said Ireland women's team captain Katie McCabe.
We have taken a huge step forward with this deal and have shown the world what can be achieved through unity as we offer male and female international players the same opportunities.
Everton defender Seamus Coleman said the Irish men's team were happy to play their part in ensuring a deal could be reached.
We are delighted as players to do what we can to ensure that our female international players are treated equally and fairly and we remain fully committed to doing whatever we can to achieve that goal together, said Coleman.
The FAI said the equal pay will begin immediately with September's internationals and equality of approach has also been agreed with regard to bonuses for tournament qualification.