Their fight for equal pay earned the US women's soccer team USA TODAY's Women of the Year award.
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The U.S. women’s soccer team is being honored as a group as part of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year program, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. The program launched in 2022 as a continuation of Women of the Century, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.
For decades, as generations of women made major gains in the fight for equity and equality, one glaring disparity has remained: their paychecks. As women break glass ceilings in various industries – being elected vice president of the United States, helping create lifesaving vaccines, winning more World Cup races than any Alpine skier in history – pay for their accomplishments often don't equal that of their male counterparts. This year, women must work until March 14 to earn what men earned in 2022. This date is recognized as Equal Pay Day.
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Wouldn’t equal pay also mean equal skill/ability? Can they bring in the same amount of revenue? Can they preform at the same level as men?
this
Nope lol they actually would get destroyed by any decent male high school team probably.
This is wrong. If a certain group brings in 150,000 views and the other brings in 2,000,000, they pay should be different. Bring in more revenue
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All you prove is that you still don’t know how economics work
Persons who could not make it on a male team can now identify as female and come in and crush these ladies and replace them. Way to go! Do the hard work and then be shoved aside.
Such a pointless video
Do they play in front of the same numbers of people that men’s teams do? If so, these women should be paid equally. The problem is that far fewer fans watch women’s soccer compared to men’s soccer. Professional sports are about the bottom line, not social engineering.