Several players from last summer’s World Cup-winning U.S. Women’s Soccer Team are filing a complaint to a government agency seeking equal pay to their male counterparts when on national team duty for their country. Carli Lloyd, Becky Sauerbrunn, Hope Solo and Alex Morgan, along with their attorney Jeffrey Kessler, join TODAY to talk about their complaint.
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US Women’s Soccer Team: It’s Our ‘Responsibility’ ‘To Push For Equal Pay’ | TODAY
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So 15 year old boys will now be paid the same as women athletes? Nice!
Before asking for equal pay first tell us where the cash is coming from. The advertising revenue is not there. Ticket sales will not cover it. Sponsorship will not cover it. Woman libbers don't watch it and won't pay to watch it. That's the problem.
the women players get a much higher percentage of the revenue it makes, the revenue is small because women buy shoes and bags not game tickets or ppv, women sports doesnt make money 100% of nothing is nothing
Hope solo has a nice butthole
who let them out of da kitchen
12 – 0
"The pay disparity is large"
So is the ticket disparity.
Haha equal pay for a team that got wrecked by 12 year old boys?
This didn't age very well AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wow ridiculous
You get beaten by 14 year old boys , your just not very good at this sport lol
They seem to think that success should guarantee you more money , it's all about the money you generate , more people watch men's football, that means more revenue, its not rocket science
BECAUSE YOU DONT SELL ANY TICKETS! -Bill Burr
Sports is show business. From the USWS perspective, a community theater crew pay should equal that of a crew working on some famous Broadway play when the two crews perform the same work, never mind the huge difference in entrance tickets price and number of viewers. The concept of equal pay for equal work applies when the conditions are equal. Women Soccer is a USA invention, with close to zero audiences in other countries. How could that be paid the same as what is well established to be the most profitable showbusiness on Earth that is the male counterpart. Impossible from any numerical (read: non-discriminatory) analysis.
Huh. So so-called Equal pay before….is being dealt with now and They are having a problem with Absolute Equal pay now? interesting. Everyone Should look this situation up in it's entirety. All variables…that The Players seem to ignore, lie about, mis represent etc. Sad.
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They are only dividing the country more and adding to the division created by Barrack. I love America and couldn't be more happier to hear that the opening game for the women resulted in a massive LOSS and it makes me even happier to hear that at the beginning they took a knee for Marxism. They took a knee to keep POC "suppressed" cause the org they knee for wants to keep the father out of the home. It was a great day. Go USA. Praying for an early exit. #MarxismGetsYouKnowWhere
They should get paid the same amount as the prepubescent school boys that defeated them.
YUP! fast forward to 2021……..Still the same ratings, if not worse, still no revenue generated during regular season (do they even have a season?) so NOTHING regarding revenue has changed, hence the pay will stay the same. But hey they make a lot of money from their sponsors.
They actually think people will listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL2nBJaxjBI They negotiated their own contracts which was less beneficial for them than the mens.
The woman soccer team negotiated a different contract which was less beneficial for them.
Funny how it’s all Men, oops correction *boys who are making the comments against equal pay for the USWNST. Maybe when you all grow a vagina and experience discrimination for it, you’ll understand.
Most of the angry commentator's here are men lmfao hilarious
THEY DESERVE EQUAL PAY!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEN THESE DAYS?!
Its pretty simple actually. Just get 2 billion more people to watch you guys score 13 against Thailand and lose by 5-2 against Dallas under 15. You'll get the revenue and more money if the same ratios are present.
Aint this tha same team that lost to a bunch of high schoolers?
stop interrupting them
Soon they will be asking the same wages as Ronald and Messi, and think they are just as good as them
"I think that how much you get paid should have something to do with how much you bring in. I'm the highest-paid fighter not because Dana and Lorenzo wanted to do something nice for the ladies. They do it because I bring in the highest numbers. They do it because I make them the most money and I think the money they make should be proportionate to the money that they bring in." – Ronda Rousey
When you bring up THE WORLD CUP everyone knows your talking about the men's team.
sports is entertainment. it's simply supply and demand. Johnny Depp makes more money than most actors, because people want to see him, and therefore his movies makes more money at the box office. There are Female actors that make way more than Male actors. Female models make more than male models, because more people want to see female models. If female athletes want to make male athlete money, then rise to the level of male athletes and you are there. I'm a guy and I want to make as much as Tom Brady, but I can't perform like Tom Brady….IT"S NOT FAIR… Boo Hoo. It's not the guys fault that they are biologically better at sports.
When you get more viewers that can pay you like the men’s, then you will get equal pay.
The solution is to allow men's teams to compete against women's teams , then we can see if they're really equal!
Simple.Men soccer is WAY more watched Than women’s Soccer.Women DONT bring in as much pay as men.But they Expect equal pay. 🤷♂️
Drawing the crowds of similar size? WTF?
Bring in more money then maybe. Until then f o
The WNBA players also want equal pay. I'm sure Diana Taurasi would like to make $40M like LeBron and Steph Curry.
Why are the women being payed less than the men?
There is no ”mens soccer” or any other ”mens sport”. Those leagues are just the leagues open for everyone, no matter if you are man, woman, under 18 years old, blind, paraplegic etc. There are however a number of leagues open to you only if you fullfill certain specific criteria, such as a U18 league, womens league, paralympics etc.
If you want equal pay, take a spot on the roster of the one big league that is open to anyone – the so called ”mens league”.
I can’t believe noone told you about this before…
Dont forget and have more fans and more medals and trophys…
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