USWNT, U.S. Soccer reach $24M equal pay settlement

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The interesting thing about this one is it appears women's soccer draws more viewership than men's. eg https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/10/us-viewe...-mens.html

So equal (or even higher) pay here makes sense. I know a lot of people who don't realize that sports players are essentially sales people. For example, they sell ads on TV. It makes sense that those who sell more get paid more. Viewership of other sports has a more dramatic difference.

I always watch the US Women’s team. I can’t stand all the theatrics in the men’s game.
I stopped watching the "sport" because of all the acting. Maybe when games were on tiny TVs people didn't notice. But now that we have HD, 4k and can do our own replays, the sport has to change. The NFL has made some fair changes and soccer is way behind. Maybe I'll have to check out the women's games.