Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton joins a growing list of celebrities to give their support to the U.S. Women’s national team in its wage discrimination dispute against U.S. Soccer, saying that everyone women deserves equal pay.
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“We continue to be told we should be grateful just to have the opportunity to play professional soccer and to get paid for doing it”, said Solo on the “Today” show Thursday morning.
“As part of this, women’s national team players are paid full-time salaries and other compensation”, a US Soccer statement said. “I think that we’ve proven our worth over the years”. The U.S. women’s team received a total of $2 million after winning the World Cup past year. We want to have decent travel accommodations.
She credits the U.S. Women’s National Team’s success with inspiring young girls to play the game.
During the 2015 World Cup, the US women’s soccer team set an American television record for the highest rated soccer match in USA history.
The women, who are members of the team that won the World Cup a year ago, charge the United States Soccer Federation with wage discrimination. “And they would be justified in asking for more than the men are receiving”.
And then two months later, U. S. Soccer hauled the union representing the women’s national team into court for a lawsuit to validate its claim that the team’s collective bargaining agreement, which expired in 2012, lives on in a memorandum of understanding and runs through the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The US women’s team is highly placed in the FIFA Coca Cola ranking than their male counterparts and are indeed one of the best, if not the best team, in the world.
The players filed the complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and in the letter demanded that the federation be investigated.
“When we’re talking about men qualifying for the World Cup… there’s a big payout that comes with that; where at this point there’s still not a big payout that comes with qualifying for the women’s World Cup”, Cooper concluded.
“The numbers speak for themselves”, Hope said in a statement.
ESPN says pay for playing in the World Cup also differs greatly, according to figures. The claim states that men are paid $3,750 for each sponsor appearance and women are paid $3,000. “We are the best in the world, have three World Cup championships, four Olympic championships”. A member of the women’s national team receives $1,350, but only if the US wins.
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Lawyer Kessler added that the suit aimed to end the “discriminatory and unfair treatment” the players have endured for years.
