Six years after a group of American women’s soccer stars launched a landmark legal fight to win equal pay from the U.S. Soccer Federation, the two sides announced Tuesday morning that they’ve agreed to a settlement worth $24 million.
The campaign began in March 2016 when five of the national team’s biggest stars — Alex Morgan, Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, and Carli Lloyd — filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
In March 2019, just three months before a World Cup they went on to win, an even larger group of players took U.S. Soccer to federal court in Southern California. They sought damages including nearly $67 million meant to make up for past differences between men’s and women’s World Cup prize money.
