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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 222 

Expressing the sense of the Senate 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 13, 2015 

Mr. LEAHY submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the Senate 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 

$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; 


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•SRES 222 IS 

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; 

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 Senate— 


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•SRES 222 IS 

1 (1) urges the Fe ́de ́ration Internationale de 

2 Football Association to immediately eliminate gender 

3 pay inequity and to treat all athletes with the re4 spect and dignity those athletes deserve; 

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

6 practice of gender pay inequity in the workplace, in7 cluding athletic competitions and related prize 

8 awards; 

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

10 international organizations to eliminate gender pay 

11 inequity; and 

12 (4) instructs the Secretary of the Senate to 

13 submit a copy of this resolution to the President of 

14 the Fe ́de ́ration Internationale de Football Associa15 tion. 

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