Live From London: Equal Pay for Equal Play

The Pay Check

Bloomberg

Society & Culture, Business, Investing

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Pay Check is back with a bonus episode on gender equality in women’s soccer. A few months ago, the US women’s soccer team filed a pay discrimination lawsuit alleging that they do not get equal pay for equal work. The US women’s team is far more successful, by many metrics, than the men’s team, but they make half as much. Globally, the story is much more complicated. Rebecca Greenfield talks with Eben Novy Williams about the fight for equality in the US and then heads to Bloomberg’s UK Equality Summit for our first ever live taping to talk with English soccer legend Kelly Smith, head of the Women’s Super League Kelly Simmons and Lenah Ueltzen-Gabell about the fight for equal treatment in the UK.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.2	A warming planet, complex geopolitics and fierce competition means business operations are under more scrutiny than ever before.
0:13.0	Returning to Singapore this July, the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit is uniting leaders and investors
0:19.0	to explore how sustainability efforts can bolster resilience
0:23.0	and mitigate risk. Learn more at Bloomberg.com slash SBS-SBS-Singapore. That's Bloomberg.com
0:30.6	slash SBS-S-Singapore. For the last 25 years, the U.S. women's soccer team has been a cultural juggernaut.
0:45.3	When I was growing up, there was Mia Hamm and Brandy Chastain.
0:49.3	Today's sports fans have Alex Morgan and Megan Rapino.
0:53.3	But when it comes to the U.S. men's team,
0:55.9	I actually can't name a single player. The women's team wins World Cups. The men's team
1:03.2	doesn't even qualify. The women's team's popularity, though, doesn't show up in their
1:08.8	paychecks. No matter how famous female athletes are in soccer
1:13.1	or in anything else, they don't make anywhere close to what men do. The U.S. women's soccer team
1:19.0	wants to change that. A few months ago, they filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation
1:24.2	asking for equal pay for equal work.
1:32.7	Last week, I went to London to tape a live episode of this show all about women's soccer.
1:38.3	We talked about the growing professional league there, the World Cup, and whether female athletes will ever make what men do.
1:41.4	But before I went, I wanted to understand what's going on here in the U.S.
1:46.7	Evan Novi-Williams covers sports for Bloomberg. I asked him to tell me why female soccer players
1:52.3	make so much less than men. Hi, Evan. Hi, how are you? Thanks for coming. Thanks for having me.
1:58.9	So in March, the U.S. women's soccer team filed this big
2:03.6	lawsuit for gender discrimination. Can you tell me about it? They are a women's national soccer team.
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