Inside the US Soccer Equal Pay Fight

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy and Lynn Olszowy

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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A two-time World Cup and Olympic soccer champion, US team alumna Julie Foudy gives a candid inside look at the battle over fair pay for female players. US Soccer Federation president Carlos Cordeiro just resigned amidst controversy over sexist language in USSF's legal filings. Since filing that suit in March 2019, the USWNT won its fourth FIFA World Cup and continued its streak of global dominance. Foudy details what it's taken to move the case forward, while the team continues to play at a top level.

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0:00.0	Just to recap on what the US soccer lawyers said in court has had this gender discrimination
0:08.3	lawsuit on Monday.
0:09.3	The women do not perform equal work requiring equal skill and effort to the men because
0:14.2	the overall soccer playing ability required to compete at the senior men's level is materially
0:19.7	influenced by the level of certain physical attributes such as speed and strength and
0:25.9	a polling misstep from the US soccer law.
0:33.3	The US soccer federation is in a firestorm thanks to an own goal by their lawyers and
0:38.6	they're ongoing dispute with the US women's national team over gender discrimination.
0:43.4	Today what's really being argued in this complicated case and what the the reigning world cup
0:49.7	champions could be on the verge of a major victory for equal pay?
0:54.9	I'm Unicombs, it's Thursday March 19th.
0:59.0	This is ESPN Daily, presented by ADT.
1:11.2	Hi Julie.
1:12.2	Hi Meena.
1:13.7	Julie Fowdy is a soccer commentator for ESPN and was a member of the US women's national
1:18.3	team from 1987 to 2004.
1:21.1	She also hosts the podcast Laughter Permit.
1:24.1	So Julie it's been a chaotic few days and I use the word chaotic relatively now for
1:30.9	American soccer.
1:32.5	Late last week the president of the US soccer federation Carlos Cordero resigned.
1:37.9	What was the chain of events that brought that about?
1:40.3	We need a couple days and a lot of wine for that.
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