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Iceland's Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir (centre right) during the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 Group D match at the New York Stadium, Rotherham. Picture date: Monday July 18, 2022.
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ICELAND international Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir has described a decision to award her more than £72,000 in back-dated pay during her maternity leave as “a wake-up call” for clubs.
The 32-year-old midfielder took former employer Lyon to a Fifa tribunal in a bid to recoup under-payment of her salary during the time she was away when her son Ragnar was born.
A ruling made public on Tuesday revealed that the French club has been ordered to pay her €82,094.82 (£72,139) plus 5 per cent interest a year from September 10 last year until the debt has been cleared.
Comments from Matt Goodwin and Danny Kruger expose a reactionary vision in which falling birth rates are blamed on women, says JUDITH CAZORLA
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
