What Next - 2022 Retrospective | How Soccer's Best Women Finally Got Paid
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🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This week we look back on some of our favorite stories from a year that had us asking—sometimes with excitement and sometimes with exasperation—"What Next”? This episode originally aired June 1.
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If you want to understand the way inequality is baked into the systems and structures all around us, examining the pay equity issue in U.S. soccer is a pretty good place to start. But after a six-year battle, the U.S. Women’s National Team struck an agreement with U.S. Soccer, ensuring equal pay for equal work for the men’s and women’s teams — another victory for a team that doesn’t take no for an answer.
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Guest: Christina Cauterucci, senior writer at Slate and a former middle school soccer star.
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| 0:32.3 | Hey everyone, it is almost a wrap on 2022, |
| 0:34.9 | and we are replaying some of our favorite episodes from the year. |
| 0:38.8 | Today we're talking soccer. |
| 0:40.5 | The World Cup and Qatar was not the only big event for soccer fans this year. |
| 0:44.1 | In May, after years of negotiations, |
| 0:46.2 | the US Women's team finally reached an agreement with US soccer |
| 0:50.0 | guaranteeing they'll be paid the same amount as the men. |
| 0:52.8 | Part of that agreement included splitting money with the men for big tournaments. |
| 0:56.8 | So for the first time ever, the women's team is going to benefit |
| 0:59.8 | this month from the men's World Cup. |
| 1:02.4 | The men and women will split the 13 million bucks in prize money the men are |
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