{"id":1330775,"date":"2022-02-23T07:52:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T12:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1330775"},"modified":"2022-02-23T07:52:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T12:52:57","slug":"u-s-soccer-agrees-to-24-million-equal-pay-settlement-for-womens-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-soccer-agrees-to-24-million-equal-pay-settlement-for-womens-team\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Soccer Agrees to $24 Million Equal Pay Settlement for Women\u2019s Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-soccer-agrees-to-24-million-equal-pay-settlement-for-womens-team%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1330775&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The U.S. Soccer Federation has backed down after a six-year legal battle and has agreed to fork over $24 million in pay and bonuses to U.S. women soccer players to bring them up to the scale male players are paid.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/22\/us-womens-soccer-secures-equal-pay-24-million-after-six-year-legal-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreement<\/a>, the women players will all split $22 million \u2014 which is only about one-third of the damages they sought in their lawsuit. The league is also chipping in $2 million to benefit players after they retire as well as programs to help grow the sport of women\u2019s soccer, the <i>New York Post<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the future, the league will pay female players the same rate that male players are now paid. In addition, the women will also now receive the same World Cup bonuses that the men get upon reaching the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/alex-morgan-of-team-united-states-stands-for-the-national-anthem-to-picture-id1331908438?k=20&#038;m=1331908438&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=errWH-5t4VmR_Y9581MSFQ7qpxyIJfW-r6Iph9reRCA=\" alt=\"Alex Morgan of Team United States stands for the national anthem prior to the Women&#039;s Semi-Final match between USA and Canada on day ten of the Tokyo...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>KASHIMA, JAPAN \u2013 AUGUST 02: Alex Morgan #13 of Team United States (2R) stands for the national anthem before the Women\u2019s Semi-Final match between USA and Canada on day ten of the Tokyo Olympic Games at Kashima Stadium on August 02, 2021, in Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan. (Photo by Naomi Baker\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Women\u2019s National Team star Megan Rapinoe celebrated the settlement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFor our generation, knowing that we\u2019re going to leave the game in an exponentially better place than when we found it is everything,\u201d Rapinoe said. \u201cThat\u2019s what it\u2019s all about because, to be honest, there is no justice in all of this if we don\u2019t make sure it never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/adrianna-franch-and-megan-rapinoe-of-team-united-states-stand-for-the-picture-id1331451210?k=20&#038;m=1331451210&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=xBo4LeEvFHrddDWVylupArQcoQGVE7ecdxfsD1H3AOY=\" alt=\"Adrianna Franch and Megan Rapinoe of Team United States stand for the national anthem prior to the Women&#039;s Quarter Final match between Netherlands...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>YOKOHAMA, JAPAN \u2013 JULY 30: Adrianna Franch #18 and Megan Rapinoe #15 of Team United States stand for the national anthem before the Women\u2019s Quarter Final match between Netherlands and United States on day seven of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at International Stadium Yokohama on July 30, 2021, in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so gratifying to feel like we can start to mend a relationship with U.S. Soccer that has been severed for so many years because of the discrimination that we faced,\u201d Women\u2019s soccer star Alex Morgan added. \u201cTo finally get to this moment feels like we can almost sigh a breath of relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just one step towards rebuilding the relationship with the women\u2019s team. I think this is a great accomplishment, and I\u2019m excited about the future and working together with them,\u201d said USSF President Cindy Parlow Cone. \u201cNow we can shift the focus to other things, most importantly, growing the game at all levels and increasing opportunities for girls and women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One major point the league argued for the disparity in pay is that the women\u2019s teams earn far less as a league.<\/p>\n<p>Just a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2019\/06\/13\/huston-u-s-womens-soccer-pay-gap-mens-team-exists-for-reason\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">viewership<\/a> of the tournament games is telling. The men\u2019s team brings far, far more fans to their World Cup games than the women\u2019s teams. In 2018, the Men\u2019s World Cup garnered 3.6 billion total viewers worldwide. That viewership brought $6 billion in profits to FIFA, the international soccer league. On the other hand, the last Women\u2019s World Cup in 2015 only saw 764 million viewers. That is a huge disparity and an essential marker in what the two leagues earn from the fans.<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s soccer brings more fans and more of the fan\u2019s money to the sport. And now that the league is being forced to pay its female players millions more in salary and bonuses, that is millions more the league will not earn to help keep the whole thing going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Soccer Federation has backed down after a six-year legal battle and has agreed to fork over $24 million in pay and bonuses to U.S. women soccer players to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}