{"id":1996,"date":"2023-07-21T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:37:00","slug":"orange-and-bleue-because-soccer-sexism-is-for-suckas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capertongillett.com\/blog\/orange-and-bleue-because-soccer-sexism-is-for-suckas\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange and Bleue: Because soccer sexism is for suckas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fun fact: Players at the 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup will be earning, on average, just 25 cents for every dollar earned by men<\/a> at the 2022 Men\u2019s World Cup, which is how I\u2019ll refer to it because having The Regular One and The Women\u2019s One is part of what got us into this situation in the first place. (Incidentally, that’s up from less than eight cents per dollar in 2019, so… progress?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, some people like to justify the pay disparity by saying women\u2019s soccer is boring compared to men\u2019s soccer, and I guess if you think winning zero World Cups<\/a> is super exciting and winning four World Cups is a real snoozefest, that might be the case. If you do<\/em> have better sense, however, you agree with telecom company Orange (which is French for \u201corange\u201d), a sponsor of the French Women\u2019s World Cup football (which is French for \u201cfootball,\u201d which is Foreign for \u201csoccer\u201d) team. They worked with Publicis agency Marcel on a film<\/a> celebrating the awesome on-field skills of\u2026 Well, you can watch it yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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