A popular basketball forward is “tired of seeing” female athletes “complain” about equal pay initiatives, he said.
Female athletes are not “laying out steps” to achieve their goals and capitalizing on major companies, said Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green, adding that they should use companies who claim to be pro-women “to their advantage.”
“I’m really tired of seeing them complain about the lack of pay because they’re doing themselves a disservice by just complaining,” Green added.
“They’re not laying out steps that they can take to change that, and so it’s coming off as a complaint because people that can change it, they’re just going to continue to say, ‘Well, the revenue isn’t there, so if you don’t bring in the revenue, we can’t up your pay,'” he said. “They’re going to keep using that, but the reality is as true as that is, it’s an excuse because everyone says we support women, we support women in power, we support women in the workplace, we do this for women, we do X for women, blah, blah, blah, and everyone uses it to their to advantage, yet these women are not using these people that say those very things to their advantage, so then it just becomes a complaint.”
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Green understands where female athletes are “coming from,” he continued.
“I’ve seen so many complaints recently of women talking about the pay gap between what we make and what they make,” he said. “And I feel where they’re coming from. I know what I put into this, to be great. They put in the same time in that we put in. So, I understand what they’re saying.”
U.S. women’s national team soccer player Megan Rapinoe spoke during an Equal Pay Event at the White House on March 24 alongside first lady Jill Biden.
“I know there are millions of people who are marginalized by gender in the world and experience the same thing in their jobs,” Rapinoe said. “And I know there are people who experience even more, where the layers of discrimination continue to stack against them. And I and my teammates are here for them.”
Rapinoe protested “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 2019, saying that as a gay American, she understood how it felt to see the flag and “not have it protect all of your liberties.” She led the charge in demanding to have herself and fellow female soccer players be paid the same as their male counterparts, claiming in October 2019 that her pay would triple if she were a man.
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The Biden administration’s equal pay event featured Margaret Purce, one of Rapinoe’s teammates, and other U.S. female soccer players who have collectively spoken in favor of adjusted pay scales.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re an electrician, an accountant, or part of the best damn soccer team in the world — the pay gap is real,” President Joe Biden said at the time. “And this team is living proof that you can be the very best at what you do and still have to fight for equal pay.”
