Secret deodorant donates $529G to US women’s soccer team to close gender pay gap.

US women’s soccer team deserves equal pay: Comedian Joe Piscopo Comedian Joe Piscopo says the U.S. women’s soccer team deserves equal pay. Secret deodorant announced Sunday it’s donating $529,000 to the U.S. women’s soccer team, Opens a New Window. becoming the first USWNT sponsor to publicly support the four-time Women’s World Cup champions’ fight for equal pay.

The deodorant brand, owned by Proctor & Gamble, said each of the 23 players on the U.S. World Cup roster will receive $23,000. In a full-page ad printed in Sunday edition of the New York Times Opens a New Window. , the company said the women’s soccer team “just made history. But they have always deserved equal pay.”

Men and women who participate in World Cup every four years are professional athletes who are being paid a salary to participate in the sport they love. Many make millions of dollars in endorsements as well. Other than expenses, why are they paid at all to play in the World Cup? Take away the reimbursement and how many would volunteer to represent their country? It’s not about representing the United States. It’s about rich athletes getting paid to represent themselves. Solve the so-called pay gap by not paying women or men anything to play World Cup. I know this will never happen, but there is your solution.

Market forces should dictate wages. The women simply do not generate the revenue that the men do. To be paid on par with the men, the soccer enterprise would lose money, unless it was subsidized. If it was subsidized, it would then draw money from some other, potentially productive activity. Not exactly the best way to run an efficient economy.

Good for them. If they want to donate some of the profits they make from selling women’s products to a woman’s soccer team, go for it. But women would be better served if P&G would stop charging more for women’s products than they charge for comparable men’s products.

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