Soccer is a sport that has been played ever since 5000 B.C. The game’s popularity has increased so much over the years. The sport is equally popular with both genders, but the equality ends there. The pay gap between the U.S.’s men and women’s soccer teams is outstanding. It always has been, but when a group from the U.S women’s soccer team decided they would have no more inequality, they took action on the first of this month.

Five players from the U.S. national women’s team filed a wage-discrimination complaint against U.S. Soccer. The team has been affected a lot by the gender pay gap. The gender pay gap has been an issue since forever. The gender pay gap exists because women earn 79 cents to every man’s dollar earned at work.

The women’s soccer team won the World Cup this year and they took home 3 million dollars just for winning the game against Japan. In 2014, the men’s soccer team made $8 million after they lost to Germany in their World Cup match. Even though the men lost, they were paid almost $5 million more than the winning women.

One midfielder of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team Carli Lloyd wrote an address in The New York Times. In the powerful passage she said, “We can’t right all the world’s wrongs, but we’re totally determined to right the unfairness in our field, not just for ourselves but for the young players coming up behind us and for our soccer sisters around the world,” Lloyd wrote.

“Simply put, we’re sick of being treated like second-class citizens. It wears on you after a while. And we are done with it.”

Equal Pay Day conveniently took place on April 12th, almost a week after the complaint was filed. Equal Pay Day is a day dedicated to raising awareness for the pay inequality and to help combat it. A few famous celebrities that stand with equalizing pay are Beyonce, Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence, and even Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton sat down with Megan Rapinoe, a member of the U.S. women’s soccer team, in Clinton’s discussion about equal pay. Clinton praised Rapinoe and her powerful comments earned an astounding applause from the crowd.

Barack Obama made sure to chime in on the issue saying, “The gender pay gap in the United States is among the largest of many industrialized nations, and because women make up nearly half our workforce, this disparity impacts us all,” the president wrote. “The pay gap between men and women offends our values as Americans, and as long as it exists, our businesses, our communities, and our nation will suffer the consequences.”