Should Female Soccer Players Get Equal Pay

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It can be said that the society in the United States is facing a revolution of equality for its citizens due to recent events. On June 2015, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of marriage equality for the LGTB community. This landmark is a monumental time to celebrate what our founding fathers envisioned when the declaration of independence was signed, life, liberty, and prosperity; however what about gender equality for women in the workforce? Women have been undercompensated in some fields, and the most evident one is the unjust compensation for professional female athletes. Teams like the Women’s Soccer National Team (WNT) face this deficit of compensation when in reality the WNT deserve as much credit as professional …show more content…

Inside The Economics Of Professional Women's Soccer," professional female soccer players earn about 22 % less than a low salary for a male soccer player. There are only few high profile female soccer players that have endorsement deals, but even then, their salary is still considered low. Sydney Leroux has been a member of the WNT since 2012. She gained fame for scoring a famous goal in the 2012 Olympics Games to quality the United States to the Semifinal Tournament, they later went on to the Goal Medal, and three years later, she was summon to participated in the 2015 FIFA Women’s Word Cup to represent our country. Leroux’s salary is estimated to be around $60,000 to $92,500 a year, and this includes endorsements, while Jozy Altidore, a member of the Men’s National Soccer Team had an average salary of $6 Million, which does not include endorsement deals. Comparing both athletes (Leroux and Altidore) from a statics point of view, athletes are 25 years, they both play the striker position, both athletes play for Professional Club team, and yet Sydney Leroux has scored more international goals than Jozy Altidore and are expected to perform at the same level …show more content…

He publically stated that current World Cup Champions should be rewarded for their performance, sportsmanship, teamwork effort, and grit, instead of been understated because of their gender. Senator Leahy’s introduces a Senate resolution not only because of the inequality of pay in general for female soccer players, but also because of the enormous gap of the price money from the 2014 World Cup Male Champions, which was $35 million, to $ 2 millions that the Women’s World Cup Champions were awarded (“Following historic when in the women's World Cup, Leahy unveils senate resolution calling for award equity for female soccer

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