Equal Pay For Equal Play

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“Equal Pay for Equal Play” The US Women’s National Soccer Team has been fighting to achieve “equal pay for equal play” for years. Throughout the history of the USWNT they have won three Women’s World Cups (including the first Women’s World Cup), four Olympic Women’s gold medals, seven CONCACAF Gold Cups, and ten Algarve Cups. Even though the women’s team holds a better record than the men’s, they still find themselves getting paid less than their male counterparts. This is one of the numerous forms of prejudice. It can be anything from judging a person because of the color of their skin, to treating someone unfairly just because she is a woman, to denying someone their rights because they are gay. Throughout history, it has been a

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