Brazil's women's soccer team will get an equivalent pay as their male footballers, the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) announced Wednesday.

The policy means every player representing Brazil will receive equal daily rates and prize when on international duty.

CBF boss Rogério Caboclo announced that pay parity had started in March."Since March this year, the CBF has equaled the prize and daily rates between men's and women's football. That's to mention , the players earn an equivalent as those that are called up [to the national team]," Caboclo said during a news conference , whilst also appointing two women's football coordinators, Duda Luizelli and Aline Pellegrino.

"Women will receive an equivalent daily rate as those that already receive them. The women's team that wins or progresses through the stages at next year's Olympic Games will receive an equivalent because the men.

"What the lads will receive at subsequent World Cup (2022) are going to be proportionately adequate to what's proposed by FIFA. there's no more gender difference; the CBF is treating men and ladies equally." Pay disparity between men’s and women’s professional soccer players has been within the spotlight since the us women’s team sued the administration U.S. Soccer last year alleging gender discrimination in earnings and dealing conditions.

The team’s claims were dismissed by a court in May and a bid to right away appeal the choice was denied.

Australian soccer’s administration said in November that it had reached agreement with the players’ union on a replacement negotiation agreement that “closes the pay gap” between the men’s and women’s teams.

New Zealand and Norway have also moved to deal with the pay gap between their male and feminine players.

The Brazil women’s team reached the planet final in 2007 and Olympic finals in 2004 and 2008.