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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Did the US women’s soccer team win their ‘equal pay’ case? It’s complicated

Cindy Parlow Cone
US Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone, Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Qatar prime minister Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani watch the United States’ match with the Netherlands in the last 16 of the World Cup. Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

Perhaps it’s not fair to call the US women’s soccer team’s $24m “equal pay” settlement a Pyrrhic victory.

Let’s instead call it a pyromaniac’s victory. A lot of money was piled up and set on fire.

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