{"id":762760,"date":"2021-09-16T14:29:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762760"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:29:08","slug":"after-years-of-demanding-equal-pay-womens-soccer-team-rejects-equal-pay-deal-as-pr-stunt-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-years-of-demanding-equal-pay-womens-soccer-team-rejects-equal-pay-deal-as-pr-stunt-not-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"After Years of Demanding \u2018Equal Pay,\u2019 Women\u2019s Soccer Team Rejects Equal Pay Deal as \u2018PR Stunt,\u2019 \u2018Not Good Enough\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fafter-years-of-demanding-equal-pay-womens-soccer-team-rejects-equal-pay-deal-as-pr-stunt-not-good-enough%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=762760&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bronze.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. women&#8217;s soccer team has been demanding &#8220;equal pay&#8221; for years. Earlier this week, the U.S. Soccer Federation offered the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams identical (as in equal) contracts. The women&#8217;s team, fresh off an underwhelming bronze medal performance at the Tokyo Olympics, celebrated its long-awaited victory over the patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not exactly.<\/p>\n<p>The union representing the women&#8217;s national team blasted the soccer federation&#8217;s equal pay offer as a &#8220;PR stunt&#8221; that was neither &#8220;fair&#8221; nor made in &#8220;good faith.&#8221; Star forward Alex Morgan said Wednesday that the female players &#8220;still need to chat&#8221; about the equal pay offer, and suggested that equality wasn&#8217;t the team&#8217;s primary goal after all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to look line by line at what they&#8217;re actually providing, because if you have equal but it&#8217;s not even what we got before, or to the value that we are, then we still consider that to be not good enough,&#8221; Morgan said.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the U.S. Soccer Federation reiterated that its offer of &#8220;identical contracts to the USWNT and USMNT, and to discuss equalizing prize money, is real, authentic and in good faith.&nbsp;A publicity stunt is a 90-minute one-sided movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The latter sentence appears to be a reference to <em>LFG<\/em>, the recently released HBO Max documentary (produced by CNN Films) about the women&#8217;s team&#8217;s struggle for equal pay.&nbsp;The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>&nbsp;described <em>LFG<\/em> as a &#8220;good-looking&#8221; but &#8220;very politicized&#8221; film full of &#8220;outrageously one-sided arguments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Months before former president Donald Trump led the women&#8217;s team to a fourth consecutive World Cup victory in 2019, the female players sued the U.S. Soccer Federation for gender discrimination and a host of other grievances. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit, which sought $66 million in damages under the Equal Pay Act.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s soccer team and other American athletes have suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/biden-basketball-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noticeable decline<\/a> in performance since the &#8220;election&#8221; of President Joe Biden. Despite being the overwhelming favorites to win it all in Tokyo, the women&#8217;s team was humiliated in a 3-0 loss to Sweden before being knocked out of gold medal contention by Canada.<\/p>\n<p><em>Canada<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the U.S. men&#8217;s soccer team <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/men-women-soccer-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defeated<\/a> Mexico to win the CONCACAF Gold Cup, further undermining the spurious argument for &#8220;equal pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. women&#8217;s soccer team has been demanding &#8220;equal pay&#8221; for years. Earlier this week, the U.S. Soccer Federation offered the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s teams identical (as in equal) contracts. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762760","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\/762760","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762760\/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=762760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}