U.S. women's national soccer team co-captains Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe said they were shocked after their team's claims for equal pay were ...
U.S. women's national soccer team co-captains Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe said they were shocked after their team's claims for equal pay were dismissed by a court.
The duo, who helped the U.S. to a record fourth World Cup title last year, said they planned to appeal the decision, after a California judge on Friday threw out the players' claims that they were underpaid in comparison with the men's team."This decision was out of left field for us," said forward Morgan, appearing on a remote live feed on the Good Morning America programme https://www.goodmorningamerica.
"The WNT has been paid more on both a cumulative and an average per-game basis than the MNT over the class period," the court said in its summary judgment.Advertisement"If I earn one dollar every time I play and a man earns three dollars, just because I win ten games and he only wins three games - and so I make 10 dollars and he made nine dollars - I'm not sure how that's me making more money," she said.
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