Mexico City /
Megan Rapinoe has taken advantage of her status as the best player in the world for raise your voice for women’s football, Looking for a change in favor of the same that has suffered by the wage inequity, subject by which returned to refer this Thursday, when she was speaker of the House of Representatives of United States.
“There is no level of status, success, or power that protects you from the clutches of iniquity. One cannot simply overcome inequality or be excellent enough to escape discrimination of any kind. “
“We filled stadiums, broke audience records and sold T-shirts, All popular metrics by which we are judged. However, despite all this, they still pay us less than men for every trophy, of which there are many, every win, every draw, every time we play, ”he said.
Pinoe appealed to American dreams which promises a fair reward to the worker, although it does not apply to everyone in the United States and set an example to the players, as footballers are usually well paid, albeit only in the manly.
“In this country we are told that if you work hard and keep getting it, you will be rewarded fairly. It is the promise of the American dream. But that promise is not for everyone. If this can happen to us, With the brightest lights shining on us, it can happen, and it happens, to all people marginalized by gender. And we don’t have to wait. We must not remain patient. We can change that today. Right now, “he said.