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"Rich Nichols, the combative lawyer the US women hired at Solo’s prodding, did appear on the 60 Minutes segment and reiterated his stance that the women are seeking “equal money”, but he did not specify a breakdown of salary v bonus money. Nichols and fellow women’s team representative Jeffrey Kessler did not respond to requests for comment from The Guardian on the salary structure or the delays in negotiations between the two sides."

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"The 60 Minutes piece compared Solo’s pay to that of US goalkeeper Tim Howard, saying Howard was paid slightly more for playing only eight games in 2015 to Solo’s 23. The program did not mention that Solo – controversially, in the eyes of women’s team fans and pundits who are concerned about the team’s depth – played in 23 of the team’s 26 games while backup goalkeepers Ashlyn Harris and Alyssa Naeher played a combined 450 minutes. And Harris and Naeher were also paid salaries and bonuses."

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"But a “salary-based contract”, which the women have wanted in past negotiations given the uncertainty of the professional club game, also pays players win or lose. In fact, it pays players whether they play or sit. Men get a bonus for playing but not a steady salary – if they’re not called into camp with the national team, they don’t get paid. And the men’s national team has much more roster turnover in a given year than the women’s team.

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" “Whether they win or lose, (the men) get paid,” Solo told 60 Minutes. “The women were on a salary-based contract.” "

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"Much of the information on team compensation is public, thanks to legal maneuvers earlier this year. US Soccer sued the team’s union in February, seeking clarification on whether the team’s labor deal – a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2013 and in effect through the end of 2016 – prohibited the team from going on strike. (A judge ruled in US Soccer’s favor in June.) That memorandum was released as Exhibit D of the federation’s court filing."

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"The US women receive steady salaries and other benefits the US men do not receive."

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"US men usually get high pay from their professional clubs, while women’s professional soccer is still a low-revenue enterprise in the USA and globally. (Not mentioned in the 60 Minutes report: US Soccer pays salaries for national team players and has supported other costs of the NWSL; spokesman Neil Buethe says the total expenditure has been more than $10m over the league’s four-year history."

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"International governing body Fifa awards World Cup bonus money on an exponentially different scale: $35m for the last men’s champions, $2m for the women’s."

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"Some issues can be easily solved. If the women want to play a 10-game Victory Tour in the fall when most US football stadiums are busy with American football, they may need to play in smaller soccer-specific stadiums to avoid artificial turf. Travel, one of the issues mentioned in the 60 Minutes report, is already covered in the most recent labor deal – the Memorandum of Understanding that, if enforced, keeps the women out of coach for longer trips:"

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"We still don’t know whether the women are seeking to overhaul their pay structure to make it exactly identical to the men’s bonus-only structure. US Soccer has remained quiet on the matter – president Sunil Gulati declined a 60 Minutes interview, and the federation issued a brief statement asserting its status as “the world leader in developing and advocating for women’s soccer globally for decades” and saying it’s working toward a new collective bargaining agreement in which they “believe a variety of factors need to be considered when determining total compensation”."

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"US men usually get high pay from their professional clubs, while women’s professional soccer is still a low-revenue enterprise in the USA and globally. (Not mentioned in the 60 Minutes report: US Soccer pays salaries for national team players and has supported other costs of the NWSL; spokesman Neil Buethe says the total expenditure has been more than $10m over the league’s four-year history."

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The USA women's national team are demanding equal pay. Is it Realistic?

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The USA women's national team are demanding equal pay. Is it Realistic?

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/21/uswnt-60-minutes-equal-pay-us-soccer-dispute