From winning the world cup in 2015 to challenging the equal rights with their male counterparts. For years women's soccer was known as nothing more than a friendly game. Fast forward 10 years and they are winning gold medals. Their record since 2015 is 33 wins and 3 loses. Also started movements including “she believes” and raising the awareness for equal pay. When you look at the different ranking the womens placed 1st and the men's national team placed 8th. What is Fifa rewarding? The women's team for winning the world cup got $2 million dollars. The men's team for placing 8th got $35 …show more content…
When she was younger there was no gender divide because they would always have co-ed teams. She only noticed when she saw the 1999 world cup team win at the Rose Bowl and realized how rare it is to actually a women's game on tv. Alongside with Hope Solo, Carli Lloyd, Becky Sauerbrunn and Megan Rapinoe, they filed a complaint to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaining about the pay gap between genders. They then came out with a campaign “Equal pay for Equal play”. It's a simple concept but no one is doing anything about it so they are raising awareness. The aim is to help girls get the respect they deserve in equal