Unfortunately for the women’s soccer players, their case got sent to a judge who knows math, so they lost their case. Womp womp. Apropos of nothing, he’s also a male:
Watch how CNN frames it:
The US women’s national team’s fight for equality suffered a major blow Friday, as a federal judge rejected the players’ claims that they were paid less than the men’s national team.
“Fight for equality” LOL! What BS propaganda.
Claims by the players of unequal working conditions based on travel conditions, specifically charter flights and hotel accommodations, and support services, specifically medical and training support, can still go to trial.
The USWNT originally filed a lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation in March 2019, with 28 members of the team listed as plaintiffs. Friday’s ruling was issued in response to a motion for summary judgment to dismiss the lawsuit by the federation in US District Court for the Central District of California, according to a court filing.
Oh no here comes the big bad male judge ruling for the patriarchy:
However, Judge R. Gary Klausner wrote in his decision that members of the USWNT did not prove wage discrimination under the Equal Pay Act because the women’s team played more games and made more money than the men’s team.
The women’s team also rejected a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) where they would have the same pay structure as the men’s team in favor of a different CBA, Klausner wrote.
The women’s CBA guarantees that players will be compensated regardless of whether they play a match or not, while the men’s CBA calls for players to be paid if they are called into camp to play and then participate in a match, according to the summary judgment.
Klausner wrote that the women were asking for a court to conclude that the women were paid less than men because had the women been paid under the men’s CBA, they would have earned more than they did under their own CBA.
“This approach — merely comparing what each team would have made under the other team’s CBA — is untenable in this case because it ignores the reality that the MNT and WNT bargained for different agreements which reflect different preferences, and that the WNT explicitly rejected the terms they now seek to retroactively impose on themselves,” Klausner wrote.
Whattttt.. wow. It’s almost as if you can’t compare things equally to each other if they’re unequal in the first place! Bizarre. Hopefully the chicks’ team will get a womyn judge next time on appeal so that they can win one for gaia and defeat the terrible awful patriarchal forces of common sense and logic.