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The US women are having quite a world cup.

It was a day of record setting domination on the world stage for the US women.

Is it going to be 13? It is the fatigued victory for the USA. They win by 13 goals to NIL.

The United States are through to the semi-final and France for short yet again.

You're heading to the world cup final. How proud are you of this team?

I'm sorry. I'm so proud. I'm going to the fucking way now.

No, I'm not going to the White House. We're not going to be invited. I doubt it.

But the team was making headlines months before the tournament even started.

Today in a stunning move on International Women's Day, all 28 members of the team

filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation.

The lawsuit alleges that US Soccer has been discriminating against the women's national team

for a long time on an institutionalized basis, meaning sort of built into the way that US Soccer operates.

Caitlin Murray follows the team for a living literally and figuratively. She's in France right now

and she's written a book about them. There are really two components to the lawsuit.

There is the idea of equal pay and compensation and that is the more complicated and more difficult

part to understand. The women are alleging that they are being paid less than the men.

The women also negotiated for a different contract than the men where they get salaries,

but the men are paid purely through bonuses. So what equal pay looks like is a little complicated.

What isn't complicated are these non-compensation issues that come up in the lawsuit. Things like

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