What Next - How Soccer's Best Women Finally Got Paid
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
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.
Guest: Christina Cauterucci, senior writer at Slate and a former middle school soccer star.
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| 0:00.0 | Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama. |
| 0:05.6 | The young gentleman's name would be... |
| 0:08.3 | Oliver, Oliver Twist. |
| 0:10.7 | ...with Brian Cox as Fagan. |
| 0:12.9 | What have you seen? Street boy. |
| 0:14.9 | Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Caluia as Bill Sykes. |
| 0:19.3 | Oh, look at me like a hello to my lawyer. |
| 0:21.3 | I love you, baby. |
| 0:22.3 | ...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells. |
| 0:25.7 | Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms. |
| 0:56.7 | When I think about U.S. women's soccer, I think about a certain swagger. |
| 1:01.9 | I think about Brandy Chastain, scoring a winning goal at the World Cup and ripping our shirt off in celebration. |
| 1:08.5 | I think about Purple Herod Megan Rapinoe and her teammates singing We Are the Champions and Drinking Champagne |
| 1:15.7 | after they dominated internationally in 2019. |
| 1:19.2 | We Are the Champions, No Time for Looons. |
| 1:26.0 | Slate's Christina Carterucci. |
| 1:28.0 | She loves this confidence. |
| 1:30.0 | But when she thinks about U.S. women's soccer, she thinks about something else. |
| 1:34.2 | Call it accessibility. |
| 1:36.9 | I remember my parents taking me my sister to see a U.S. women's national team game |
| 1:42.3 | in the 90s and feeling like these were real people's celebrities. |
| 1:52.0 | What do you mean when you say that? |
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