The momentous settlement marks the end of a six-year fight, while illuminating just how far women’s sports still have to go.
This news is one of the women’s national team’s biggest moments since its formation in 1985 and a gargantuan step forward for other women’s sports who will hopefully come to recognize equal pay as matter-of-fact for other leagues that employ cis and trans women alike. While undoubtedly a sweetly deserved victory for the athletes who have fought and clawed their way to this moment, today also serves as a bitter reminder of the moment that we live in.
Surely, $24 million is a large sum of money that will make a sizable difference in the quality of life for each individual women’s team player, and the efforts of players who had no choice but to become activists for their own livelihood cannot be understated. However, no amount of money can erase the U.S. Soccer Federation’s failure to keep its players — both youth and professional — safe from harassment and abuse by their own coaches.
that men’s and women’s players “do not perform equal work requiring equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions.”“We’re just at the tip of the spear for women’s sports: We’re seeing increased investment, viewership, visibility, and coverage, and we’re at the point where women’s sports are big business. The risk of not investing is now greater than that of actually investing,” Robertson told Jezebel.
For further evidence of those “-isms” Robertson mentions, just take a look at women’s pay in sports outside of soccer. The
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