The problem with 'pay them'
The U.S. Women’s National Team winning the World Cup was bound to represent something much bigger than soccer. As the team progressed through the tournament, players and journalists have reminded audiences that between 2016 and 2018, women’s games generated more income for FIFA than the men’s games—despite the fact that the women’s team earned less then the men’s team. It was a fact that seemed to highlight the very unfairness of the pay disparity.
Immediately following their win, FIFA president Gianni Infantino and French president Emmanuel Macron handed Megan Rapinoe the Golden Boot award. As they posted center field, a cheerIf “performance” becomes the arbiter of what fair wages look like worldwide, it creates a troubling model based on the idea of “excellence.”
The team’s World Cup win has launched a national discussion of equal pay with celebrities, athletes, and politiciansthe fray. It’s also become a touchstone on Twitter, with many blue-checked cultural tastemakers rallying around the unfairness of the team’s low pay coupled with their historic success. Even the arbiters of the national attention,But my opinions are conflicted on where this conversation moves from here.
a privileged few—people like athletes and celebrities—to lead conversations on pay. Movements like Time’s Up and the fight against the wage gap posit that stellar performance demands equal compensation. It’s a familiar story: “I work harder than my male counterparts and still get paid half as much.”worldwide, it creates a troubling model based on the idea of “excellence.” It feels unjust that Rapinoe and her teammates are paid less than her underperforming colleagues.
a national strike. Here, the excellence model of bargaining that we’ve put on the soccer players would grossly underserve the much more vulnerable warehouse employee.“I think we’re done with: ‘Are we worth it, should we have equal pay, is the market the same?’ Yada yada. Everyone’s done with that; fans are done with that, players are done with that. In a lot of ways I think sponsors are done with that. Let’s get to the next point.
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