Women's Pay

[mateinone]

I am not sure why the rookie argument is relevant either. There are different levels of professional sport and because men's AFL is very successful, being the highest attended regular spectator sport in Australia by a fair margin, they are now able to pay what they can, but for all the kids drafted, there are 1000s each year whose dream is also ended and they go on to play for a league that is less commercial and therefore they get paid much less (if local football, perhaps hundreds a game.

Now I know that this competition is the elite competition in Australia and there are come really talented ladies out there, but to be elite in Women's AFL, where as a percentage would you need to fit among the active senior players? What about for men?

In essence, due to where the competition sits it has to be far easier to compete in the Women's AFL competition compare to the men's.

The AFL did not have to do this, there was nothing stopping them from saying... The women are welcome to run an alternate competition without any restrictions from the AFL. It is embracing it and committing large chunks of money and as many have stated if the competition is viable, the money will come.

The other arguments both sides are having on the equality in the work place are not really relevant to this. This was a standalone competition the same way the women's netball competition is and so women have not been underpaid in it.