profeminist:The Daily Show: After being paid four times less than the men’s U.S. soccer team, the U.
profeminist:The Daily Show: After being paid four times less than the men’s U.S. soccer team, the U.S. women’s soccer team released a new commercial. U.S. women’s team files wage-discrimination action vs. U.S. Soccer “The filing, citing figures from the USSF’s 2015 financial report, says that despite the women’s team generating nearly $20 million more revenue last year than the U.S. men’s team, the women are paid about a quarter of what the men earn. The pay for playing in the World Cup is also greatly disparate, according to the figures. The U.S. women received a team total of $2 million when it won the World Cup last year in Canada. Yet when the U.S. men played in the World Cup in Brazil in 2014, the team earned a total of $9 million despite going just 1-2-1 and being knocked out in the round of 16.” -- source link