And we are done with it," Lloyd, the women's world player of the year, wrote in the New York Times last month. Australia's team, a World Cup quarterfinalist that is ranked fifth in the world, went on strike last fall over salaries and working conditions. said Nichols, executive director and general counsel for the Women's National Team Players Assn. Colombia's players, who reached the knockout round of last summer's World Cup, recently went four months without a paycheck. So he admits he had some trepidation about a plan for members of the women's national team to file a pay-equity complaint against U.S. Soccer this spring.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 07, 2016 18:22 UTC