Melbourne, March 21 (Cricketnmore) Cricket Australia (CA) has presented a revamped financial payment structure that will enable the women cricketers to have a fully professional sporting career at both international and domestic levels, it was announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
CA CEO James Sutherland said the offer was for a new five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and contained a number of landmark features. Through a financial package, CA "will achieve gender equity by ensuring that the minimum and average hourly pay will be the same for state men and women in 2017\/18".<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"We are pleased that the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) agrees with us that women, for the first time, should be part of the MOU, and we have proposed a financial model that has gender equity at its heart," said Sutherland in a release.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"Under the proposal, women will receive an immediate average pay increase of more than 125 percent. As a result, our international women cricketers will see their average pay increase from $79,000 to $179,000, as of July 1 this year. By 2021, we expect to see our international women cricketers earning an average of $210,000.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"And our state female cricketers, playing both Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and Women's Big Bash League (WBBL), will see their average remuneration more than double from $22,000 to $52,000 this year."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
CA also announced match fees for the WNCL and the Matador Cup will be exactly the same: a one-day game for a state cricketer is worth the same to both men and women.<\/p>\r\n\r\n