thedailyshow:After being paid four times less than the men’s U.S. soccer team, the U.S. women’s socc
thedailyshow: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.“We are the best in the world, have three World Cup championships, four Olympic championships, and the [men] get paid more to just show up than we get paid to win major championships,” Solo said.”UPDATE: U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Sues U.S. Soccer for Gender Discrimination -- source link
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