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Hope Solo: I Won't Settle for Anything Less than Equal Pay for Women

Hope Solo is fed up.

The Olympic gold medalist and soccer star was suspended from her job as goalkeeper for the U.S. Soccer national team after making controversial remarks following her team’s defeat at the 2016 Rio Olympics last year. She has been engaged in a lawsuit over gender pay discrimination since April 2016. And just last week she named Sepp Blatter, former head of FIFA, soccer’s international governing organization, as a sexual harasser, alleging that he groped her at a 2013 awards ceremony (a claim Blatter denies).

Speaking at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit in Laguna Niguel, Calif.