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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good for them. Nothing is more demoralizing than explaining to my daughters and neices that their work is worth a fraction of a man's.
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Send them to college in STEM and forget soccer.

I am a former woman soccer player that has a grad degree in a STEM field and I was never paid less than my male colleagues.  I’m 49 and I’m a Senior position.

Competitive soccer helped me not be a shrinking violet/whiner in the workplace.[/quote]

I had no plans for my girls to be professional athletes. That doesn't mean they can't look around them and see inequality. Women being paid less than men for the same work is a societal problem that should be addressed with more than just an attitude of "go into this job to avoid it". Way to pigeonhole girls and women! We deserve better.
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But it’s not the same work.  World-class womens’ teams are routinely smoked by U15 elite boys’ sides, at least based on what I have read.  Is that not correct?[/quote]

The problem with most of these objections to the lawsuit is the fact that the players on each national team are paid equally. If you want to go to a market system for these sports, I supppsed you think we should go all the way?  Pulisic gets paid as much as the rest of the team combined. Or perhaps your instincts tell you something is wrong with that system for a national team?  In which case you might want to apply the same reason across genders?

The problem with this specific post is that yes, it is the same work regardless of outcome. And again, if you want to apply that logic more broadly, you would pay the players based on results. In which case our men would likely earn less. Or you could simply become a banana republic and pay your players only if they win. [/quote]

That doesn’t follow at all.  Why do you claim it is the “same work” if one team demonstrably (and indisputably, as far as I know) performs at a much higher level?  One can have a reasonable discussion about how to compensate the teams and players, but it entirely irrational to approach it in a naive equal pay for equal work way, when the quality of the work is manifestly not equal.

Thought experiment:  suppose we just put all the men’s and women’s team revenues in a pot, and the men and women play a two leg match for the whole pot, winner take all.  Discrimination or no?[/quote]

Whatever drives this, I hope it does not affect your wife or daughters or coworkers. This is not a thought experiment. It is simply a statement that the best team should take all the money. Perhaps you should let professional leagues know about the genius you are displaying on the board today. Well done. [/quote]

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