Women are disadvantaged in the world. This is an obvious fact. In many countries like the one we are lucky enough to call our home, gender discrimination is becoming a highly talked about subject, especially in terms of equal pay in the workplace.
As each Women's World Cup is played, women's soccer becomes a sporting event talked about more and more frequently. With Team USA carrying home their third Cup title (the first country ever to do so), they also brought home a $2 million prize.
While this number is not by any means small, considering that it doubled from the 2011 Women's World Cup $1 million prize, the Men's World Cup winners in 2014 brought $35 million back home to Germany. Additionally, $576 million was awarded throughout the men's tournament, while only $15 million was distributed in the women's cup. That's 2.6 percent of the money that was given to mens' teams.
