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The question of revenue comes up quite frequently in sports gender cases, said Neena Chaudhry, general counsel and senior adviser of education at the NWLC. In school cases, though, \"revenue\" is more along the lines of game attendance, she said.
Experts say courts should be looking beyond the basic numbers and instead to how organizations are promoting women's sports and what opportunities or resources they are providing.
This, too, may be a moot point, according to recent reports. The Wall Street Journal reported women's soccer games have been out-earning men's games and, more broadly, sales of USWNT soccer jerseys are higher, and viewership on this World Cup has been high.
Some have argued men are paid more because of market forces, and that the male employees are simply in more demand.
But, Chaudhry said, \"How much of that is just sort of pretext or justification for continuing to pay men more?\"
It's important to note the women are calling not just for equal pay, but for equal treatment, according to Raghu.
\"It's not just about the compensation. It's about access to facilities and equipment and the surface they're playing on and sort of their travel and all the many things that come together to make up a working environment,\" she said.
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Ultimately, though, all experts said the significance of this lawsuit goes beyond the individual case.
\"[Women and girls] weren't given these opportunities until Title IX passed in 1972, so men have had a very, very long head-start, and there's a lot of work to do to bring women up to the level men have enjoyed for centuries,\" Chaudhry said.
She added, \"It's fundamentally tied to the fact that many people still don't see sports as an arena for women and girls. I know that seems shocking to say in 2019.\"
This case could impact similar calls for gender equity in other sports -- professionally and in schools -- and beyond, Goldberg added.
\"I think we will see reverberations from this case in other sports and other settings,\" she said. \"Just as the #MeToo movement has called attention to the pervasiveness of sexual harassment in the workplace, this prominent lawsuit challenging pay inequity also brings a spotlight to this serious form of discrimination.\"
\"Even regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit,\" Raghu said, \"what they have done for elevating the issue of equal pay in our national consciousness and keeping this conversation going is almost more impactful.\"
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