The Fight for Equal Pay

Written by : Kate Pietruszkiewicz

Following an exciting We Play Too soccer clinic at Moody Middle school, let’s kick over to what the professional women in that sport are getting some positive attention for now! A few US Women’s National Soccer Team athletes have made an especially awesome accomplishment last Tuesday, 2/22.  Alex Morgan is a three-time Olympian (including a gold medal in 2012), a back-to-back winner of the FIFA World Cup, and now a member of the San Diego Wave FC, an NWSL soccer team. She has lived up to her honor in the Time Magazine in 2019 as one of the 100 Most Influential People of the Year; having written a children’s book series - The Kicks, starred in a movie - Alex & Me, and accompanied by a Canadian and an Australian woman, she became one of the first girls ever on the cover of the FIFA video game. Along with her co-captain from 2018-2020, Megan Rapinoe, she has led the fight for equal pay in the sport of soccer. On Tuesday, after 3 years of ups and downs since they filed their gender discrimination lawsuit campaigning for equal pay, the group of 28 women’s soccer players came to a 24 million dollar settlement with the US soccer federation. This is a big move for recognition in women’s sports, something that, if you are interested in learning more about, will be the focus of our next article!​