Historic agreement: the US women’s soccer team will receive the same as the men’s

The US women’s soccer team will receive the same salary as the men’s after reaching a “historic agreement” with the country’s Federation (USSF) on Tuesday and thus ends their long struggle to equate the salaries in both formations. See other news on ESG issues at elEconomista Sustainable investment and ESG.

“We are pleased to announce that, pending the negotiation of a new collective bargaining agreement, we have resolved our long dispute over equality salary and we are proud to join in this shared commitment to promote equality in football,” both parties said in a joint statement.

Players and Federation affirm that “getting to this day has not been easy” and highlight having achieved “unprecedented success” that he must continue with more work, both for his generation, and to “achieve equal pay for future generations.”

We look forward to continuing to work together to grow women’s soccer and promote opportunities for girls and young women in the United States and around the world. US Soccer.

The women’s team is in negotiations to equalize salaries since 2016, after the figures distributed in the last World Cups have been very unequal, according to the American press. The men’s team was eliminated in the round of 16 -in Brazil 2014- and entered almost four times more than the women’s team, which was world champion in France 2019.

One of the first reactions came from captain Megan Rapinoe, who said that this is “a great victory for all women” and will be remembered as “the moment everything changed“, in his participation in the program Good Morning America TV of ABC.

Fellow player Alex Morgan spoke of “a monumental step forward for feel valued, feel respected… I don’t just see this as a victory for our team or women’s sport, but for women in general.”