The U.S. Women’s World Cup–winning soccer team will earn just 18 cents on the dollar compared to men.
The Women’s World Cup soccer team has the world at their feet. Everyone, it seems, except the men who pay the prize money at the governing body FIFA.
MoveOn, a progressive public-policy advocacy group and political-action committee, collected 87,150 signatures, exceeding its goal of 4,000 for a petition to provide the U.S. women equal pay. UltraViolet, a national women’s advocacy organization, garnered nearly 20,000 for its own petition. “In addition to bringing home championships, the U.S. women’s team is also bringing in lots of revenue,” the MoveOn petition added. “The U.S. Women’s National Team jersey is the best-selling Nike NKE, -0.53% soccer jersey ever. And the women’s team has brought in more revenue than the men’s team for the past three years.”
The U.S. women had filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit last March. In one calculation taken over a four-year period through 2016, the lawsuit claims that if the women’s U.S. soccer team won 20 nontournament games a year, the top women’s players would earn just 38 cents on the dollar compared with the men’s team.
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