‘Blatant Misogyny’: U.S. Women Protest, and U.S. Soccer President Resigns

“I think it was a powerful message, without having to really send a message,” striker Carli Lloyd said after the victory, answering questions in front of a backdrop that featured the logos of Coca-Cola, Visa, Budweiser, Nike and other sponsors.

She added: “We don’t want to be in this position, but we are here and it’s just got to be better.”

Before the night ended, the blank crest with the four stars was showing up in fans’ social media avatars and on shirts that were licensed by the players’ union.

The filing, made late Monday night, opposed the women’s team’s motion for partial summary judgment in the equal pay lawsuit. In it, U.S. Soccer argued “the job of MNT player carries more responsibility within U.S. Soccer than the job of WNT player,” using the abbreviations for the men’s and women’s national teams, in regards to a claim under the equal pay act. They also argued the job of a men’s team player “requires a higher level of skill based on speed and strength.”

In his statement, Cordeiro said he did not “have the opportunity to fully review the filing in its entirety before it was submitted, and I take responsibility for not doing so.”

While the filing may have been stark in its tone, it wasn’t appreciably different from the legal strategy U.S. Soccer has pursued for the past year. “That all sounded pretty similar to what we’ve heard before,” Rapinoe said after the game. “You want to talk about hostility? Every negotiation that we have, those undertones are in there, that we are lesser.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/sports/soccer/uswnt-equal-pay.html