The United States Women’s National Team’s ongoing fight for pay equity in soccer took a bizarre turn this week when the U.S Soccer Federation went mask-off in a batch of filings. In court documents, the Federation argued that the job of a player on the men’s national team “requires a higher level of skill, based on speed and strength than does the job of a [women’s national team] player.” The filings go on to state that the “responsibilities” of playing for the men’s national team are greater than that of the women because “players have responsibility for competing in multiple soccer tournaments with the potential for generating a total of more than $40 million in prize money for U.S. Soccer,” while the women compete in fewer tournaments. Important to note here that the women don’t compete in as many tournaments because the USSF and FIFA don’t provide them. While the men do in fact stand to earn more money for winning a World Cup, they’ve not met those potential earnings since their inception.
went mask-off in a batch of filings. In court documents, the Federation argued that the job of a player on the men’s national team “requires a higher level of skill, based on speed and strength than does the job of a [women’s national team] player.
tournaments. Important to note here that the women don’t compete in as many tournaments because the USSF and FIFA don’t provide them. While the men do in fact stand to earn more money for winning a World Cup, they’ve not met those potential earnings since their inception. The filing also argued men and women’s teams operate under different “working conditions,” and that the men labor in more difficult conditions because of “opposing fan hostility”—conditions that are specifically egregious when playing against Mexican or Central American teams, and are “unmatched by anything the [women’s national team] must face” while competing. Almost immediately, the USSF understood that they’d fucked up.
Carlos Cordeiro resigned from his position with the USSF the following day with another apology for not fully reviewing the filings before they were sent.
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