Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Aaron Rodgers joined calls for EqualPay for the World Cup champion U.S. women's team
- we should demand they be paid at least twice as much ," the Democratic congresswoman tweeted.
"This is true even though [the women's team] performance has been superior to that of the male players—with the female players, in contrast to male players, becoming world champions," notes the lawsuit."[F]emale players have been consistently paid less money than their male counterparts." In May, Rapinoe told the Associated Press that FIFA has"unlimited resources" and criticized the steps executives have taken to balance the large pay gap. Last year, FIFA doubled prize money for the women to $30 million from the amount four years before. But this pales in comparison to the $440 million the men's teams stand to make at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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