The Women Soccer Players Fight for Pay Equity podcast assignment was a project I completed in Professor Chris Elias’s History of Race, Gender, and Sports class. The goal of the project was to present a well-sourced, critical, and compelling story about a key event in the history of American sports that intersects with issues of race, gender or sexuality. The necessary components included creating a project overview, a contextualization analysis with a minimum of seven sources, a 10-12 minute script, and a final recorded audio of the podcast. The narrative emphasized that the US National Women’s Soccer Team and current World Cup Champions have taken a public stand and are poised to fight for justice and pay equity by filing a gender discrimination lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation.
UPDATE: In February 2020, Forbes Magazine reported that the U.S. National Women's Soccer Team filed for $66 million in damages in their lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. In March, Carlos Cordero, the President of the U.S. Soccer Federation resigned and has been replaced by Cindy Parlow Cone. On April 10, the Wall Street Journal reported the trial which was to start in May has been delayed until June 16.
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