What Next - 2022 Retrospective | How Soccer's Best Women Finally Got Paid

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 28 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.

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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0:31.0	Hey everyone, it is almost a wrap on 2022 and we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from the year.
0:38.0	Today we're talking soccer.
0:40.0	The World Cup in Qatar was not the only big event for soccer fans this year.
0:43.0	In May after years of negotiations, the US women's team finally reached an agreement with US soccer guaranteeing they'll be paid the same amount as the men.
0:52.0	Part of that agreement included splitting money with the men for big tournaments.
0:56.0	So for the first time ever, the women's team is going to benefit this month from the men's World Cup.
1:02.0	The men and women will split the 13 million bucks in prize money the men are taking home from Qatar.
1:07.0	The women's cup will actually be more than they made when they won their own World Cup in 2015 and 2019.
1:13.0	Today we're sharing a conversation with SlateRider Christina Katarucci about how this historic deal got reached and what it means for women athletes.
1:21.0	Alright, here's the show.
1:27.0	When I think about US women's soccer, I think about a certain swagger.
1:32.0	I think about Brandy Chastain scoring a winning goal at the World Cup and ripping her shirt off in celebration.
1:38.0	I think about purple-haired Megan Rapinoe and her teammates singing We're the Champions and Drinking Champagne after they dominated internationally in 2019.
1:49.0	We are the Champions, no time for new.
1:56.0	Slate's Christina Katarucci, she loves this confidence.
2:00.0	But when she thinks about US women's soccer, she thinks about something else. Call it accessibility.
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