Category Archives: Soccer

Shooting for Equality: USWNT Stars File Wage Discrimination Complaint

The Players’ Cause of Action It is not often that members of one of the most successful teams in a country make significantly less than their unsuccessful counterparts. However, this is exactly the case with the two United States national soccer teams. In their Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint[1] against the United States Soccer […]

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Turf Wars: The Players’ Fight for Equality in the 2015 Women’s World Cup

I remember watching the championship game of the 1999 Women’s World Cup (WWC) with my parents, sitting in awe and feeling inspired. For non-soccer fans, it was the game in which United States’ defender Brandi Chastain scored the fifth penalty kick in a shootout to lead the U.S. to victory over China. Perhaps what people […]

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