On Friday, the FIFA Council voted to increase Women’s World Cup prize money from USD$15 million to $30 million. They also voted to throw in some tournament preparation money and payments to clubs for losing their NT players.
The FIFA Council also ratified a decision to establish a Task Force for Women’s Football, to identify clear goals for the professionalisation of the women’s game and mechanisms to reach them. FIFA will now set up the task force and determine a plan and timeline. pic.twitter.com/yaKMsvYqhd
— FIFA Women's World Cup (@FIFAWWC) October 26, 2018
Without context it sounds good - the prize money in the women’s game has been way too low for way too long, increasing in insulting little 3- and 5-million increments that are chump change to FIFA.