REIMS, France — All 28 members of the U.S. women’s soccer team have reached a tentative agreement to pursue mediation with their bosses, the U.S. Soccer Federation, after the Women’s World Cup ends in an effort to resolve the gender-discrimination lawsuit they filed in March, a U.S. Soccer official confirmed Friday.
The U.S. women filed their 25-page lawsuit on March 8, roughly three months before the World Cup kicked off in Paris. In the complaint, attorneys for the players argued that the USSF provided the women’s players inferior wages, working conditions and investment in their game despite doing essentially the same job as the U.