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U.S. Women’s Soccer Team is Actually Overpaid Relative to Men

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Equal Pay Day

Joe Biden and the women’s national soccer team demand equal pay.

I embrace the idea.

Let’s see where it leads.

Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

The U.S. women’s soccer team lost a court ruling on equal pay.

On July 23, the U.S. Women’s Team Files Appeal in Gender Discrimination Lawsuit.

U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles last year threw out the players’ claims that they were underpaid compared with the men’s national team and weeks later denied the players’ bid to appeal until the working conditions element was settled.

The brief, filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, asks that the ruling be reversed and the case sent back to district court to be heard by a jury.

The World Cup-winning team sued their governing body in 2019 seeking $66 million in damages under the Equal Pay Act, alleging gender discrimination in compensation and nearly every other aspect of playing conditions.

Facts of the Matter

  • The women’s team was offered the exact same contract as the men. They turned it down
  • The actual contract they have pays them more than men after taking benefits into consideration.

You Be the Judge

I do not want you to take my word for it. Instead, I ask you to play the above video, then decide.

Video Comments 

  • As the father of a daughter that lives eats and breathes soccer, I took interest and educated myself early in this lawsuit to be able to provide her the facts. This is absolutely the best single source presentation of those facts I have seen. Thank you for ALL of your fact videos its so rare today to see honest presentation of facts as you present. Keep up the great work.
  • I wish the court just says “yes, you deserve equal pay. and this is why we’re reducing your salaries”.
  • “First things first, the women’s team was offered the same deal as the men’s team… but they rejected it.” Ummm, end of case right there.
  • I think the US men’s team needs to file a lawsuit citing this court case as evidence they are being discriminated against
  • Explained eloquently and without a lot of emotion for or against. This vid was seemingly an honest evaluation of the situation to help this guy see the situation clearly. Thanks Nate.
  • My 6 year old Daughter tries the same thing with candy… “Sorry Miss you chose your candy, you can’t have brother’s too”. Now stop crying!

Correct Conclusion

The US Women’s Soccer Team Demands to Be Paid More Than Men.

It would be fitting justice if the women’s team had to take the precise deal the men received. 

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Mackkenzie
Mackkenzie
4 years ago
The real injustice here is that the US men’s team is overpaid. The global soccer league (FIFA) is paying the US men’s team an improperly large proportion of the revenue generated from global men’s soccer. Due to the lack of popularity of soccer in the USA the portion of the global soccer revenue FIFA apportions to the US men’s team should be MUCH lower than it gives to other countries.
Ironically, I’ve read that FIFA purposefully overpays US men’s soccer because it views it as an “investment” to try and build interest for soccer in the US, and grow revenue for soccer in the USA over the long term. Talk about affirmative action…
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Cocoa
Cocoa
4 years ago
It’s about how much money and more popular the women’s game is…or isn’t. Men’s soccer has low turnout.
Women in tennis make same money for less games played and women’s game has no real viewership close to men’s. So whatever works best for the women is what they want …regardless if the revenue
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SmokeyIX
SmokeyIX
4 years ago
They already segregate sports by gender just to benefit women, who could rarely make a team in desegregated sports.   And the women’s US soccer team lost to a group of boy children.  
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Doug78
Doug78
4 years ago
Not to mention that it consists of 100% women with no men represented. That has to change.
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Webej
Webej
4 years ago
Sports seems the last venue to be bold about equal pay.
Men are not paid equally at all, nor is it the case for performing artists or pianists … the pay tends to be individual.
Seems like a lost cause to me: Imagine the line-backer demanding the same pay as a star quarterback — who will be the referee for the relative value of their contribution.
What many people also don’t realize is that equal pay for equal work is nowhere near as self-evident and enshrined as it sounds.
  • In the sixties & seventies it was perfectly normal that secretaries at IBM earned 3× as much as people doing the same job at a less illustrious firm. Only in the eighties were such differences rationalized away.
  • Seniority pay is also considered self-evident, even though people are doing the same work (often less so, or less arduous, the young ‘uns get the heavy lifting).
  • I know from relatives who were of working age in the twenties and thirties (1920’s) , that it was considered normal to get a raise with each child added to your family (or on marrying), because everybody understood feeding and clothing an extra kid cost money.
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Mackkenzie
Mackkenzie
4 years ago
The problem seems to be that men’s sports are often more popular than women’s sports and draw larger revenues from sponsorships, audience numbers, etc. Thus, even the world’s most successful woman’s soccer team doesn’t earn as much money as the world’s worst men’s team since the over-all revenue for the men’s sport is so much vastly larger. 100% of the entire league earnings for women’s soccer could be less than 1% of the revenue for the men’s league.
Since pay for national soccer teams is based largely on a percentage of revenue, women will wind up with the short end of the stick.
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Maximus_Minimus
Maximus_Minimus
4 years ago
Remember, the Olympic games for most of their history allowed only amateur athletes. Good.
The municipalities organizing the games, spend a whole lot of public money in a national ego boosting extravaganza, and generally don’t bother to ask the citizens for approval.
Sometimes misleadingly sugarcoat it with vaporware promise of shovel ready jobs, and top prise facilities, which at best end up costing taxpayers still more. At worst, leave decaying facilities.
Hopefully, cases like this, and other stupidities will herald the end of the Olympic Games Flying Circus.
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shamrock
shamrock
4 years ago
Congratulations, you are the top link in both google and bing for “womens soccer team overpaid”.   I guess my actual comment is the video is too long for my attention span, and, how is this dude on youtube a trustworthy source?
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Dr. Manhattan23
Dr. Manhattan23
4 years ago
I think the argument now is about the $$$ allocated to the pool for winners in the world cup. The total pool allocated for men is $38MM with the winning team getting $9MM. The woman’s total allocation is $4MM, with the winner getting $2MM. They get 50% of the winnings, but the argument is that they should get $9MM like the men. It doesn’t seem possible, as the draw for woman’s soccer doesn’t seem to be as high as mens soccer. Follow up video to the one you posted. Both videos explain it very well
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