Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit be held in abeyance and the oral argument scheduled for March 7 be removed from the calendar. Soccer have jointly requested that the case currently on appeal before the U.S. Soccer under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging that women's players were paid a total of $1.725 million in bonuses after winning the World Cup in 2015 while the men's players were given $5.375 million in bonuses in 2014 by the same federation despite being eliminated in the round of 16.Īs part of their agreement, the USWNT and U.S. In 2019, 28 members of the USWNT filed a lawsuit against U.S. Meanwhile, the men’s team, which lost in the round of 16, earned $9 million. When the USWNT won international soccer’s most prestigious event, the World Cup, in 2015, the team earned $2 million in prize money that was given to the national federation to be distributed to the players and the organization. "We believe now the time is right because we believe it’s a responsibility for women’s sports, specifically women’s soccer, to really do whatever it takes for equal pay and equal rights and to be treated with respect," Solo said on TODAY in 2016. In 2016, attorneys for Rapinoe, Morgan and fellow top players Carli Lloyd, Rebecca Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo began the fight for equal pay when they filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming the women’s team should be paid an equal amount as the U.S.
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