The Central District Court of California has granted summary judgment partially in favor of the United States Soccer Federation in the USWNT’s equal payment lawsuit. Their Equal Pay Act and Title VII claims have been denied for not establishing sufficient evidence of their claims, but other parts of their claims have been allowed to move forward.
The court sets out the standard that the USWNT’s lawyers needed to meet: they needed to show that the USWNT 1) performed substantially equal work to USMNT players 2) under similar working conditions yet 3) MNT players were paid more.