What Next 2022 Retrospective | How Soccer's Best Women Finally Got Paid

This week we look back on some of our favorite stories from a year
that had us asking—sometimes with excitement and sometimes with
exasperation—"What Next”? This episode originally aired June 1.
  If you want to understand the way inequality is baked into
the systems and structures all around us, examining the pay equity
issue in U.S. soccer is a pretty good place to start. But after a
six-year battle, the U.S. Women’s National Team struck an agreement
with U.S. Soccer, ensuring equal pay for equal work for the men’s
and women’s teams — another victory for a team that doesn’t take no
for an answer.   Guest: Christina Cauterucci, senior writer at
Slate and a former middle school soccer star.   If you enjoy
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