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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 364 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Fe ́de ́ration 

Internationale de Football Association should immediately eliminate gender pay inequity and treat all athletes with the same respect and dignity. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 15, 2015 

Ms. LINDA T. SA ́NCHEZ of California (for herself, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. VARGAS, 

Mr. GRIJALVA, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. EDWARDS, 

Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. DELAURO, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. 

NADLER, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. DEUTCH, 

Ms. MENG, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. 

ELLISON, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. 

NORTON, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. HONDA, Ms. MICHELLE

LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico, Mr. LEWIS, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. 

DESAULNIER, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. FARR, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 

TED LIEU of California, Mr. KILDEE, Ms. BROWN of Florida, and Mr. 

ISRAEL) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 

the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 

the Fe ́de ́ration Internationale de Football Association 

should immediately eliminate gender pay inequity and 

treat all athletes with the same respect and dignity. 

Whereas the Fe ́de ́ration Internationale de Football Association (referred to in this preamble as ‘‘FIFA’’) awarded 


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$576,000,000 to the 32 teams that competed in the 2014 

Men’s World Cup, but only awarded $15,000,000 to the 

24 teams that competed in the 2015 Women’s World 

Cup; 

Whereas FIFA awarded $35,000,000 to the team that won 

the 2014 Men’s World Cup, but only awarded $2,000,000 

to the team that won the 2015 Women’s World Cup; 

Whereas FIFA awarded $6,000,000 more in prizes to each 

team that lost in the first round of the 2014 Men’s 

World Cup than to the team that won the 2015 Women’s 

World Cup; 

Whereas FIFA awarded $420,000,000 to the 32 teams that 

competed in the 2010 Men’s World Cup, but only awarded $10,000,000 to the 24 teams that competed in the 

2011 Women’s World Cup; 

Whereas FIFA awarded $31,000,000 to the team that won 

the 2010 Men’s World Cup, but only awarded $1,000,000 

to the team that won the 2011 Women’s World Cup; 

Whereas the 2015 Women’s World Cup Final had more than 

25,000,000 viewers in the United States, making it more 

widely viewed than the Major League Baseball World Series or the National Basketball Association Finals; 

Whereas the 2015 Women’s World Cup highlighted the need 

to eliminate the existing gender pay disparity in prize 

award structure in athletic competitions that has persisted for decades; 

Whereas the unfair and unjust prize award allocation system 

used by FIFA sends a terrible message to women and 

girls around the world about the value of their contribution to sports; 


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Whereas, in 2007, Wimbledon finally implemented an equal 

prize payment structure for all athletes, regardless of 

gender; and 

Whereas gender should not determine the amount of a prize 

award that a person or team receives in an athletic competition: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) urges the Fe ́de ́ration Internationale de 

3 Football Association to immediately eliminate gender 

4 pay inequity and to treat all athletes with the re5 spect and dignity those athletes deserve; 

6 (2) supports an end to the unfair and unjust 

7 practice of gender pay inequity in the workplace, in8 cluding athletic competitions and related prize 

9 awards; 

10 (3) urges all other local, State, Federal, and 

11 international organizations to eliminate gender pay 

12 inequity; and 

13 (4) instructs the Secretary of the House of 

14 Representatives to submit a copy of this resolution 

15 to the President of the Fe ́de ́ration Internationale de 

16 Football Association. 

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