payments

Fiao’o Fa’amausili was the captain of the New Zealand (NZ) Black Ferns, our national women’s rugby team, until 2018. The Black Ferns have been a very successful team, winning the Women’s Rugby World Cup a record five times. Wow!

Despite this success, the Black Ferns have only recently become ‘professional’ rugby players who are paid to play rugby. Although they are paid, the Black Ferns make less money than members of the men’s professional rugby team - the All Blacks. This difference in pay is often called the ‘gender pay gap’ and it is not uncommon in sports.

What do you think about this? Is it fair? Should female athletes, like the Black Ferns, be paid the same amount as male athletes who play the same sport?

I think women athletes should get the same amount as males becuase it is not fair if the women waste there time doing all these stuff with out getting paid more than what they get now.reason 2: they have to get the same amount as the all blacks other wise they would loose players from the silver fern because they didn't get the same money as the all blacks. last reason; the womens in silver ferns have done lots of work in girls rugby and that is why i think women athletes should get the same amount.