One of these sports is not like the others

The 2019 Women’s World Cup and the success of the U.S. team — beating England and headed for the final, as this magazine went to press — brings the pay disparity between male and female athletes to the forefront of the sports news cycle. While the focus remains on the women’s national team, it’s become a benchmark for kicking off debates in other sports.

But attempting to use the women’s national soccer team to make the case for other female athletes does the soccer team a disservice. In the June 18 edition of the Washington Examiner magazine, I wrote about women’s sports and how revenue and television ratings drive salaries, which is largely the reason men receive more prize money and higher salaries than women.