Megan Rapinoe sat with Washington Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell before Reign FC's game against the Chicago Red Stars on Sunday to talk about closing the gender pay gap in the United States.
She made that abundantly clear on Sunday afternoon.
“I’m very thankful to be in the position to sit next to you guys, the people who are actually making change,” Rapinoe said. “This is part of what it means to everybody take their own personal responsibility and to do what they can in whatever lane they can be most productive and most successful and most impactful in.”
Rapinoe and the entire team filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation in March, too, arguing not only for equal pay but that the gender discrimination has impacted where they play games, how they travel, their training, medical treatment and their coaching. “The effects of equal pay is not just on the woman’s wallet,” Rapinoe said. “It’s on her children’s wallet, it’s on her community’s wallet. It’s sort of on the whole world. It affects men too, I think a lot of guys don’t realize that. Every time a woman is not paid equally, everyone is not and nobody’s potential is able to be reached.”
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