 CLOSING THE GAP Tuesday, October 5, 2021 
This week, Make It work editor Hanna Howard takes a look at the continuing legacy of women's soccer players fighting for equal pay. You can follow her on Twitter at @_hannahoward.
For the U.S. women's national soccer team, it's never been just about the game.
"On the women's national team, as soon as you put that jersey on, you are a crusader for pay equity." That's what former U.S. women's national soccer team goalkeeper Briana Scurry told CNBC Make It's Work reporter AJ Hess when they spoke recently.
"That's just how it goes," Scurry says. "You take up that mantle as something that's as important as the quality of the football you're playing on the pitch. And when you put your cleats away, you don't put that mantle away."
Scurry is perhaps best remembered for her part in securing the USWNT's win during the 1999 Women's World Cup, when her block of a Chinese team member's penalty kick cleared the way for a U.S. victory. Though the USWNT's dominance, and its stars like Megan Rapinoe, may be something we take for granted now, when Scurry was born in 1971, Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination by educational institutions that receive federal funding and opened the door for many women's sports in schools, wasn't even a law – it was passed in 1972. Scurry was literally born into a world that had no expectation for the boom in women's sports we've seen since.
The USWNT has been a global powerhouse since the '90s, when Scurry joined fresh out of college, but the team doesn't just make headlines for its outstanding play. For years now, the team has been in a very public battle with the U.S. Soccer Federation concerning pay equity. It's a fight that women's soccer players have been engaged in for decades now.
"It's something you take up when you come into the world if you're a woman because it just seems to be that everywhere is inequitable," says Scurry. "My flavor just happens to be women's soccer and someone else's is the corporate C-suite."
Last month, the USSF announced it would offer the players' unions for both the women's and men's national teams the same contract. The move was met with both optimism for progress being made and skepticism that all sides would reach an equitable agreement. But regardless of how that particular negotiation turns out, it's clear that the women of U.S. soccer won't give up striving for equity anytime soon.
"We're still fighting for pay equality. I'm 50 years old. When I'm 80, I'm assuming that we still will be fighting for it," Scurry says. "These are journeys that take a very long time."
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The long road to equal pay for the U.S. women's national soccer team
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