Bloomberg Law
March 8, 2019, 4:43 PM UTCUpdated: March 8, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

U.S. Women Soccer Players File Class Suit Over Unequal Pay (1)

Patrick Dorrian
Patrick Dorrian
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Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, and 25 other U.S. women’s soccer players in a March 8 class lawsuit accuse the sports governing body of paying women substantially less than men’s players based on sex.

Federal laws prohibit paying women less than men for equal work and the United States Soccer Federation Inc. flouts those laws by continually shortchanging its women’s team players despite their superior success to the men’s team, the lawsuit filed in California federal court alleges.

The women’s team is currently ranked number one in the world, a position it’s held for 10 of the past 11 ...

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