The decision by players with the U.S. women's national soccer team to sue U.S. Soccer may seem to come at a PR-friendly moment, with the suit revealed by Andrew Das of the New York Times on International Women's Day.
Megan Rapinoe of The United States during the SheBelieves Cup training and media availability session at Raymond James Stadium on March 4, 2019 in Tampa, Florida, United States. The decision by players with the U.S. women's national soccer team to sue U.S. Soccer may seem to come at a PR-friendly moment, with the suitIt has, but that has nothing to do with today. The reality of the matter is, this was years in the making.
Now, three years later, the EEOC finally, without resolving the dispute, gave players the green light to sue. Those intervening years have allowed the five players to organize, with the size of the group now part of the lawsuit mushrooming to 28 players. And the suit seeks class-action status, which would widen the scope of those taking on the structure of U.S. Soccer still further.
But just as significant is overlaying the lawsuit timing with the current point in the team cycle for the United States. The EEOC complaint came in 2016, one year after the sports world had embraced the USWNT fully — 23 million people watched the World Cup final on television, parades were held in New York and Los Angeles, and the National Women's Soccer League experienced a significant bump in attendance.
And that attention, with the attendant coverage, means more given that the lawsuit's aims extend beyond just questions of pay. As the players said earlier Friday in a statement:"the 2017 collective bargaining agreement between the USWNT players association and the USSF
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