Five key members of the United States women’s national soccer team,
the reigning World Cup and Olympic champion, have filed a federal
complaint charging U.S. Soccer with wage discrimination.
In the filing, the five players contend that the women’s team is the
driving economic force for U.S. Soccer, the governing body for the sport
in America, even as its players are paid far less than their
counterparts on the men’s national team, said their lawyer, Jeffrey
Kessler.
The case, submitted to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws against workplace
discrimination, is the latest front in the spreading debate over equal
treatment of female athletes. A tennis tournament director was forced to
resign recently after saying that female players “ride on the coattails
of the men,” and the N.C.A.A. has drawn scrutiny for the financial
disparities between the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.
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