Women's Soccer

For John, BLUF:  Equal pay for equal performance seems fair.  In the case of Soccer it is the gate.  And, Ms Rapinoe seems like a jerk.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Megan Rapinoe Says Women’s Soccer ‘Won’t Accept Anything Less Than Equal Pay’

Here is the sub-headline:

“It’s quite simple from our perspective,” her teammate Christen Press said during a Thursday interview on “Good Morning America.”

From Huffington Post, by Reporter Alanna Vagianos, 15 August 2019.

Here is the lede plus two:

The members of the U.S. women’s national soccer team know their worth ― and they’re not backing down from the ongoing equal pay fight against the U.S. Soccer Federation.

“We won’t accept anything less than equal pay,” star midfielder Megan Rapinoe said Thursday during an interview on “Good Morning America.”  “We show up for a game.  If we win the game, if we lose the game, if we tie the game, we want to be paid equally, period.”

The USWNT filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation earlier this year and entered into mediation just before the World Cup started in France in June.  The women’s team has fought long and hard to get paid the same as their male counterparts, who win fewer games but get paid roughly $30,000 more per player.

As Blogger Steven Green said, at InstaPundit, "THEN SHE’D BETTER FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GENERATE EQUAL REVENUES."

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff