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Wage revolution: Inside the fight for pay parity
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Wage revolution: Inside the fight for pay parity
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EQUAL PAY, EQUAL PAY, EQUAL PAY - that s what 59,000 spectators chanted after the US Women s National Soccer Team won the 2019 FIFA Women s World Cup. Today, the four-time world champions are still fighting to be paid the same as their male counterparts, who didn t even qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The Women s National Team has won four World Cup championships and four Olympic gold medals on behalf of our country. We have filled stadiums, broken viewing records and sold out jerseys, US captain Megan Rapinoe said in her address to the White House for Equal Pay Day last week. Yet despite all of this, we are still paid less than men, for each trophy, each win, each tie, each time we play.
Megan Rapinoe: soccer star, political activist
By Lyn Neeley posted on April 2, 2021
Megan Rapinoe’s captivating autobiography, “One Life,” traces how her upbringing and lifelong joy of playing soccer led to stardom and political activism.
Rapinoe has used her superstar status to advance the fight of workers and the oppressed. In 2012 she joined the handful of professional athletes who are out lesbians. In 2016 she took a knee during the national anthem protesting police brutality and systemic racism. Now Rapinoe is fighting for equal pay for women.
Rapinoe is co-captain of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) and has been essential to their winning record: four Women’s World Cup titles, four Olympic gold medals and eight Concacaf (Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football) Gold Cups. In 2018 she became the fourth woman to be named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year. In 2019 she won the Golden Cup for best player
Biden Voices Support For Paycheck Bill On Equal Pay Day
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