A six-year fight over equal pay that had pitted key members of the World Cup-winning United States women’s soccer team against their sport’s national governing body ended on Tuesday morning with a settlement that included a multimillion-dollar payment to the players and a promise by their federation to equalise pay between the men’s and women’s national teams.
Under the terms of the agreement, the athletes – a group comprising several dozen current and former women’s national team players – will share $24 million in payments from the federation, US Soccer. The bulk of that figure is back pay, a tacit admission that …
- February 23, 2022
