Billie Jean King adds her voice to the USWNT's equal pay fight
by Arash Markazi, Los Angeles Times
Jul 10, 2019
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Moments after the U.S. women's national soccer team won the World Cup in France, a familiar chant began to rain down from the crowd at Parc Olympique Lyonnais.
"Equal pay! Equal pay!"
It was an appropriate chant given the disparity in compensation for the U.S. women's team, winner of back-to-back World Cups and four-time World Cup champions, and the U.S. men's team, which failed to make the World Cup last year and has never advanced past the round of 16.
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