Co-author of Soccernomics Stefan Szymanski argues that one way of addressing the huge gender pay gap in football is to divert money from the men's game into women's football.
It is no secret that a gargantuan pay gap, cut along gender lines, exists in elite sport. On Forbes' list of the world's highest-paid athletes in 2020, US Open champion Naomi Osaka is the top-earning woman at 29 on the chart. Serena Williams down in number 33 is the only other woman in the top 100.
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