U.S. women's national soccer team fighting for equal pay

The Women's World Cup champions are calling out their own federation.

Five leading stars of the United States women's national team announced Thursday on NBC's "Today" show that they have filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against U.S. Soccer, claiming wage discrimination relative to the men's national team.

"I think the timing is right," co-captain and reigning world player of the year Carli Lloyd told Matt Lauer on the show. "I think that we've proven our worth over the years. Just coming off of a [2015 Women's] World Cup win, the pay disparity between the men and women is just too large. And we want to continue to fight."
The four other players in the filing, which requests an investigation into U.S. Soccer, are goalkeeper Hope Solo, striker Alex Morgan, playmaker Megan Rapinoe and central defender and co-captain Becky Sauerbrunn.

They believe that the women's national team, which enjoys a national popularity that often exceeds the men's in the mainstream, drives far more revenue to the U.S. Soccer Federation than they are compensated for. The trouble is, as laid out in a recent investigation by the New York Daily News, the financial constructions that channel those incomes are so tousled that there's no telling what money is brought in by the women and how much of it by the men. The women say they have been stonewalled by the federation in their attempts to see the financial statements for themselves.

eddie wrote:Becasue they're more rubbish at football, than men?

eddie wrote:Like hair pulling? Or breast slapping? (I have actually seen this recently. Did nothing for me but I've heard some men like it)

Cass wrote:

eddie wrote:Like hair pulling? Or breast slapping? (I have actually seen this recently. Did nothing for me but I've heard some men like it)

LOL no. like headbutting and slide tackling.

I have only gotten into it in the last few years. Girls soccer over here is MUCH bigger than it is in the UK for some reason.

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