I know we have a lot of soccer fans here.
Women's soccer players in the US make less pay even though women's soccer makes a lot more money than men's soccer. The women decided to take it to court.
Hope Solo is involved, I read her biography, she's a very interesting person, a little pron to violence.
http://screamer.deadspin.com/uswnt-s...ain-1768183923
Five prominent members of the U.S. Women’s National Team have filed a wage discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that governing body U.S. Soccer has illegally and unfairly paid women’s players less than their counterparts on the USMNT, despite the women’s team being more successful and, at the moment, more profitable.
The complaint, which was filed by Hope Solo, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, and Alex Morgan, alleges that,
“There are no legitimate, non-discriminatory reasons for this gross disparity of wages, nor can it be explained away by any bona fide seniority, merit or incentive system or any factor other than sex.”
According to the complaint, USWNT players currently take home four times less than their male counterparts. Here’s how that manifests in bonuses, appearance fees, even per diems:
This is not so simple a matter as the men being paid more because they earn more for U.S. Soccer. The filing includes the minutes from the USSF’s annual general meeting held earlier this year, in which the budget going forward was set. U.S. Soccer expects USWNT international games to bring in more revenue than the USMNT games this year—and significantly more in 2017.
This filing should be read in the context of the ugly, drawn-out labor war between the women’s team and the USSF, which has manifested itself in battles over games held in stadiums with artificial turf, which the players deem dangerous. A December friendly in Hawaii was canceled, a day after Rapinoe tore her ACL training on the field.