Two-time Women's World Cup winner Alex Morgan looked back at the U.S. women's national team's equal pay battle, saying the group "never knew if it was going to ever happen" as they faced years of opposition before successfully reaching a settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation. Morgan said that U.S. Soccer essentially argued "women are inherently inferior" and that the men have more responsibility.

Morgan was one of five players who filed a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2016, months after the USWNT won their first World Cup in more than a decade and was also a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the entire team months before they won the 2019 World Cup. The legal battle played out for several years before the parties reached a settlement in 2022 that guara

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