US Soccer claims being a male player requires more skill

Or even more specifically to the article's point is equal pay

Ultimately my question is how do you quantify equal pay when the leagues have entirely different pay structures?

Since these the leagues are on different contracts with different pay structures, we are effectively comparing apples to oranges.

"Men's team players do not receive a salary from US Soccer, and they are paid only when they are called up to play for the men's team, according to the filing."

"US Soccer is required to "pay a $100,000 annual salary to a minimum number of 'WNT Contracted Players' each year" even if they do not play for the national team."

It doesn't seem like it's possible to have equal pay with entirely different pay structures.

If what was being advocated for was equal pay structures then I would understand.

But if they are only advocating "equal pay" then we need to spend some time to define what "equal pay" even looks like for people on entirely different pay structures.

We can have co-ed teams, but if everyone is given the same skill test and it makes women virtually non-existent on the team, there shouldn't be any special rules in place to fix the inequality.