But that doesn’t mean, on the whole, that it’s not true that soccer players on the U.S. Women’s National Team are paid less than players on the U.S. Men’s National Team.
And given that the women generate as much revenue as the men, sometimes more, and they garner many more wins and much more overall competitive success, that seems strange, discriminatory even. Unless it’s taken in the greater context of the general wage gap between men and women across all professions in the United States. Then, it’s probably not strange at all.
And the wage gap between men and women in Utah is one of the widest in the nation — for reasons beyond discrimination, but not completely separate from it.