The US Soccer equal pay deal is revolutionary, but more must be done to achieve true gender equality

The US women's national team has won equal pay with their men's side but it only scratches the surface of the gender equality fight in football. (Getty Images: Ronald Martinez)

Over the past 30 years, the United States has been a trailblazer in women's football and the wider women's sport movement.

They won the first official FIFA Women's World Cup against Norway back in 1991. They set a new world record for attendance at a women's sports event (90,185) when they hosted and won the tournament against China in 1999, and became the outright most dominant women's national team in football history when they won their third world title in 2015 and their fourth in 2019.