Upon her return from France earlier this week, I asked the progenitor of the equity fight waged by the U.S. women’s world champion soccer team how pleased she was with the national rally the squad had ignited. Its conflagration continued Tuesday during the team’s ticker-tape celebration in New York, when the head of the U.S. Soccer Federation attempted to address the throngs that turned out to fete the club only to be drowned out by a raucous chant: “Equal pay, equal pay!”
“What hurt me the most,” she said, “is when it [the new women’s rights movement] wasn’t en vogue, I didn’t have the support of the team.