Alex Morgan Call Her Daddy Interview: ‘Women are inferior’ was argued by U.S. Soccer in case against equal pay

Two -time ladies world cup winner Alex Morgan looked back on the equal payment fights of the American ladies, and said that the group “never knew if it would ever happen” because they had years of opposition before successfully reached a settlement with the American football federation. Morgan said that American football essentially claimed that “women are inherently inferior” and that men have more responsibility.

Morgan was one of the five players who filed a complaint in 2016 to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, months after the USWNT won their first world cup in more than a decade and was also a claimant in the lawsuit submitted by the entire team months before they won the World Cup 2019. The legal battle took place for a few years before the parties reached a settlement in 2022 with equal reward and included $ 22 million in Backpay.

“We won the World Cup for the first time in 16 years,” Morgan said in a recent episode of the Call Her Daddy Podcast. “Suddenly stadiums had sold out stadiums. We saw income. We generated income for our football like never before. We had sponsors to come to us with the US:” We want to work with the women. “US Soccer does not do sponsors for only the women or men team. So 2016 will be completed.

“Three years pass and we know that we are bringing money into American football. However, we are paid, for example, as per game, $ 1500 for a victory. Zero for a draw, zero for a loss. The men, I throw this there, but you may play almost accurate. $ 12,000 for a victory. $ 90,000. If they would play the same amount of games as we, the same amount of games, the same amount of games, the same amount of games, we would win the same amount of the same amount of games, we would win the same amount of the same amount of games, we, the same amount of games. Otherwise. “We are in 27b and we are:” This is not filled at all. ” And don’t let me start on FIFA and no matter how we had to, and they have taken a long way, but in 2015 there were also many challenges in that area.

Although the USWNT received a lot of public support after they had brought their lawsuit, the reception was different within the federation.

“I remember that I specifically went to the annual board of the US because I was on the athletes council and you get the chance to speak at the end if you want,” said Morgan. “There is a microphone, such as a hot microphone. And one of the board members of another board, it is as if there are 300 people in the room. He goes on the microphone and he goes:” Our women’s team is so disappointing. They don’t deserve to be paid what they don’t even earn now. ” He goes on for five minutes and after you have heard people clap in the room, such as during the annual sign of the US and American athletes, as is ashamed on his behalf, but also as this is who makes the decisions in this room.

However, the pushback of the federation was most visible in the judicial documents that came to light at the beginning of 2020 and later forced the resignation of President Carlos Cordeiro.

“We had to submit court documents … In fact, say why we immediately earn wages and American football and say why we didn’t do that,” said Morgan. “Their most important argument was that the man bears more responsibility because they were, what was it? They bear more responsibility because they are inherently faster and stronger because it costs more strength and speed by a man and the responsibility is in fact that women are inherently inferior. We dragged them. They withdrew that statement later.”

Morgan pointed to the leadership change after the resignation of Cordeiro as a turning point in the legal battle, in which retired USWNT player Cindy Parlow Cone was promoted to the role after he served as vice president of the federation.

“US Soccer has accepted Cindy Parlow Cone, who was a women’s national team player, scored many goals, very good player,” said Morgan. “She became the American football president. That too was a voluntary position. You were not paid to do that, so when she was in charge of it, we thought:” Okay, we got one inside. We have this. I still convinced that sign, but we got this, “and when we settled and reached the same wages and millions, more than $ 20 million refunds, I held my daughter when we signed it. My daughter was three years old, two and a half, three years old, and it was a really special moment because you didn’t know how you never was like.