'Until people with the most privilege … put our own skin in the game, then things aren’t really going to change.' mPinoe
, since winning the 2015 World Cup, they’ve been generating more revenue than the men. An estimated 1 billion people watched the Women’s World Cup, making the tournament like a steadily ringing cash register: a license to print money.
This soccer team of outspoken women has burst the complacency that settled around this issue and put it on the front burner of the collective consciousness. It inspired Sen. Elizabeth Warren to tweet, “The @USWNT is #1 in the world & contributes higher revenues for @USSoccer than the men’s team, but they’re still paid a fraction of what the men earn. Women deserve equal pay for equal work in offices, factories, AND on the soccer field.
That “next phase” is now being seen across the political landscape. We are witnessing the members of the political class—who frequently operate at glacial speed—seizing upon the political benefits of this issue. This has included the welcome sight of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signing two bills to promote pay equity in New York State just before the team was set to hold its Canyon of Heroes parade.The second bars employers from asking prospective workers for their salary histories .
Until people with the most privilege … put our own skin in the game, then things aren’t really going to change.They will not be co-opted. They will not be used for photo ops. They will not be positioned as some symbol of national unity during these deeply divided times. They are not calling for peace. They are calling for justice.
Fans hold signs during the game between Ireland and the United States in the first game of the USWNT Victory Tour at Rose Bowl on Aug. 3, 2019 in Pasadena, Calif. What makes this team—and Rapinoe in particular—so dynamic is that equal pay is hardly the only issue on which it speaks out. This is a squad of women who live the politics of intersectionality, connecting their fight against sexism with the promotion of LGBTQ rights and the struggle against racism. They proudly embrace their LGBTQ teammates, including coach Jill Ellis, in a way that feels unforced and normalized.
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