The U.S. Soccer Federation had argued that the women’s team was paid under the structure the players asked for in the last collective bargaining agreement and that they “asked for a very different contract” that offered them more benefits, which the men’s players did not -- including “guaranteed annual salaries, medical and dental insurance, paid child-care assistance, paid pregnancy and parental leave, severance benefits, salary continuation during periods of injury, access to a retirement plan, multiple bonuses and more,"

So its pretty much the same fucking deal as everywhere else, men get the raw end while women get the better deal. There is a pay gap in this country and if you tally it up properly women have always gotten a better deal. But they've always just tried to make it about the paycheck and never point out the extra benefits they get.