{"id":324945,"date":"2023-08-21T03:26:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=324945"},"modified":"2023-08-21T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T07:00:27","slug":"afls-1-1-million-move-to-close-gender-pay-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=324945","title":{"rendered":"AFL&#039;s $1.1 million move to close gender pay gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\" title=\"AFL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFL<\/a> has made a major move to close the gender pay gap,\ufeff announcing equal prizemoney for the men&#x27;s and women&#x27;s competitions.<\/p>\n<p>A total of $1.1 million will be split between the top eight teams in season eight of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/afl\/aflw\" title=\"AFLW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFLW<\/a>, beginning on September 1, matching the $1.1 million allocated for the top four sides of the men&#x27;s competition in 2022 and again this year.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The AFL has almost doubled the prizemoney for the women&#x27;s competition, having divided $623,922 between the top eight teams in season seven.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-womens-world-cup-2023-england-shattered-after-final-loss-to-england\/eea21ee0-49cc-41cd-8193-6ebbc43a1ce8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>England star&#x27;s admission after &#x27;gutting&#x27; loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-womens-world-cup-2023-spain-captain-olga-carmona-father-death-after-beating-england\/b158ff7e-1532-4569-8a08-b0f009b8bc93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>World Cup hero had no idea of tragedy after thrilling win<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2023-manly-sea-eagles-faced-with-awkward-question-over-josh-schuster-the-mole-weekend-wrap\/23a64232-300b-4e97-b606-7c0257d0729a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>&#x27;Awkward question&#x27; after $800k NRL star becomes &#x27;big flop&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AFL informed the 18 AFLW club captains of the change ahead of the season launch on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The decision followed the relaunch of the McClelland Trophy this year, with $1 million in prizemoney to be shared between the players of the best-performed club across the men&#x27;s and women&#x27;s competitions in the regular seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Until this year, the women&#x27;s competition wasn&#x27;t recognised by the McClelland Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The eighth season of the AFLW will get underway in a clash between Melbourne and Collingwood at Princes Park on September 1.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"c36f22bb-48ae-4129-abc7-d94b361a588f\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c36f22bb-48ae-4129-abc7-d94b361a588f\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The AFL has made a major move to close the gender pay gap,\ufeff announcing equal prizemoney for the men&#x27;s and women&#x27;s competitions. A total of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=324945\" title=\"AFL&#039;s $1.1 million move to close gender pay gap\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324948,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324945\/revisions\/324948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}