Fighting For Equality
Hope Solo is actively fighting for the equality of women in sports and all arenas. One of the greatest challenges she says that women in sport are facing, is that of equal pay. One example of where payment according to gender was unfair, was when Hope Solo received $366,000 in 2015 for playing 23 games. USA goalkeeper Tim Howard earned $398,495 for playing just 8 games in 2014.
Fighting For Equality
Dodging Clichés
When an interviewer asked Hope what she thinks about kids and sports, she answered, “I hate the cliche of ‘just have fun,’ but what I’ve seen in today’s sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids… But for me, the reason why I became successful is because I play with passion. And, you know, I let that passion and that fire just build inside of me. And it came out on the soccer field. It wasn’t forced, you know, people didn’t put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game.”
Dodging Clichés
