The trouble in Mexico with a demand for a minimum wage for female soccer players. The senator Patricia Mercado He assured this Sunday that the Mexican women’s soccer league took the proposal to establish a minimum salary for professional athletes in Mexico as an attack.
“They said, this is coming against us. A narrative started of, they want women to earn the same as men and they said that would lead to the extinction of the league,” one of the promoters of the reform, approved, explained to EFE. in the Senate last Tuesday.
With the initiative, Mexican senators changed the Federal Labor Law to set a decent minimum wage for female athletes, who tend to earn less than men.
In the case of football, Players receive an average salary of $217 per month according to experts consulted by EFE, away from 36,265 men, which forced some women to withdraw.
Despite the fact that the football league has these conditions, the director of the competition, Mariana Gutiérrez, sent a letter to the senate in which she indicated that the demand for an equal minimum wage between men and women will eliminate the competition due to high costs. and that it will lead to Mexico not being able to host the 2026 Men’s World Cup.
“It’s difficult to legislate professional sports because the narrative is so angry. I don’t know if they didn’t understand that what we’re asking for is equal pay and not for women and men to earn the same or it’s something that doesn’t want they want the State to get involved. fix their business,” added the lawmaker from the opposition Citizen Movement.
According to the senator, Gutiérrez reacted differently to the directors of the country’s other two major women’s leagues, basketball and softball, which were initially assumed to pay more than soccer.
Mexico’s 2006 presidential candidate pointed out that after explaining to Gutiérrez that the initiative proposed a base and non-egalitarian minimum wage, the executive cooperated.
“The major professional leagues had the necessary time to prepare, from the moment we announced the project, but they didn’t do it. Although we recognized that we didn’t talk to them directly either so we stopped everything to develop of agreements.”
Along with establishing a base salary, which is at least equal to the minimum set in the country, which is about $440, the reform senators stipulated that the country’s women’s sports teams register protocols against gender-based violence in their federations.
In order for the basic salary and the obligations of the protocols to become a reality, no later than next April the other Chamber, the Chamber of Deputies, must discuss and approve the reform.
“We are also talking to deputies from our parliamentary groups and other parties to get it out. They will look bad if they don’t get it out by April at the latest,” the senator said.
Source: La Verdad
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