Secret deodorant just made a major move toward wage equality.
Hot on the heels of the U.S. women’s soccer team’s Women’s World Cup win, the Proctor & Gamble owned company just stepped up and donated a staggering $529,000 to the champions’ fight for equal pay.
ICYMI: Fans everywhere were outraged to learn that Alex Morgan, Meghan Rapinoe and the rest of the U.S. women’s team were set to earn about $250,000 each for winning the 2019 World Cup. Although it seems like a nice chunk of change, the award money given to the U.S. men’s team (had they actually won the World Cup) would have been staggeringly higher. For reference, research conducted by The Washington Post concluded that “a player on the women’s team would earn $28,333 less, or about 89% of the compensation of a similarly situated male player.”
This troubling wage inequality has sparked uproar and players from the U.S. women’s team even filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation because they’re paid less than members of the men’s national team.