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(CNN) Female athletes continue to face opponents on the field and off, constantly told they aren't good enough or strong enough, are dull to watch, celebrate too much when they win, and cry too much when they lose. But a $24 million settlement between the US Women's National Team (USWNT) and the US Soccer Federation (USSF), announced in a court filing Tuesday, is a reminder that the bottom line continues to be clear: empower women's sports to get results, but don't wait for results to invest in women's sports. Amy Bass Across the time that the USWNT has been at odds over equal pay with the USSF (its own governing body), players have endured slights both big and small, from being asked to play on injury-risking artificial turf to enduring vitriol at the hands of a sitting US president. In March 2019, when 28 USWNT players signed onto a gender discrimination lawsuit filed under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, … [Read more...] about Women’s soccer settlement is a landmark win for fairness

Amy Bass ( @bassab1 ) is professor of sport studies at Manhattanville College and the author of " One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together " and " Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete ," among other titles. The views expressed here are solely hers. Read more opinion on CNN. (CNN) Coming some three months after the US Women's National Team (USWNT) settled its gender discrimination lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation to the tune of $24 million, the organizing body announced Wednesday a groundbreaking collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that is significant for reasons both symbolic and economic, creating an innovative answer as to what equal pay in sport -- and perhaps anywhere and everywhere else -- can actually look like. Amy Bass Back in March 2019, when 28 USWNT players endorsed the discrimination lawsuit filed under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII of … [Read more...] about Opinion: It’s time for all professional sports to pay attention to what US Soccer just did

By Eric Levenson , CNN Updated 1710 GMT (0110 HKT) March 22, 2022 Boston (CNN) Lia Thomas stood tall and smiled wide atop the championship podium , her nearly 6-foot-4 frame pushing her head past the top of the Ivy League's green photo backdrop. With one hand she held a placard reading "Ivy 2022 Champion," and with the other she stuck up two fingers in that classic sign of victory. Her hair nestled alongside the medal around her neck as a blue University of Pennsylvania jacket hung from her broad swimmer's shoulders. Inside Harvard University's Blodgett Pool, not far from a large banner reading " 8 Against Hate ," referring to the Ivy's eight schools, her victories in the 500-yard freestyle on Thursday, the 200-yard freestyle on Friday and the 100-yard freestyle on Saturday showed a star athlete going about her business. The crowd of family and friends cheered politely, and Thomas posed for photos with Penn teammates and shook the hands of her closest … [Read more...] about How an Ivy League swimmer became the face of the debate on transgender women in sports