The U.S. Soccer Federation is denying allegations of gender discrimination after the women's national soccer team claimed unfair treatment in a lawsuit.
The U.S. Soccer Federation is denying allegations of gender discrimination after the women's national soccer team claimed unfair treatment in a lawsuit.
The USSF, which also rejected the suit's call for class action status, attributed the differences in treatment, including why women flew commercial while men traveled on chartered planes, to differences between the teams. The USSF claims the players on each team"receive fundamentally different pay structures for performing different work under their separate collective bargaining agreements."
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