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US Women National Team Players Sue For Equal Pay

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The issue of the equality of women in society would take centre stage againwhen the case involving five US Women’s National Team (USWNT) players, who have sued for equal pay, commences in earnest.
The World Champions, five players of that winning team are suing for equal pay with their male counterparts. Their argument is that despite being miles better than the US Men’s National Team, they are paid significantly less.
The five players spearheading the lawsuit includes Wold Cup best player and top scorer Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo. They say they are representing all women’s players in the states.
“The numbers speak for themselves,” goalkeeper Hope Solo said in a statement.
“We are the best in the world, have three World Cup Championships, four Olympic Championships, and the USMNT [men’s team] get paid more just to show up than we get paid to win major championships,”
The US women’s team is indeed one of the, if not the best team, in the world, and have consistently outperformed their male counterparts since the US embraced the game they, oftentimes derisively, refer to as soccer.
And whilst often the reason why such disparities exist is due to the level of revenue generated by the men and women’s version of a sport, the USWNT argue that they generate more revenue for the US than the men’s team does.
The five players have therefore filed a wage-discrimination suit against US Soccer, the game’s governing body, with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
US Soccer says it is disappointed in the suit.
“We have been a world leader in women’s soccer and are proud of the commitment we have made to building the women’s game in the United States over the past 30 years.” They said in a statement.
Incidentally, a similar debate is raging in tennis right now, whilst locally, our female teams are treated far worse than the USWNT can ever imagine.



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