It's wrong for anyone to be oppressed in any way, shape or form, that said, you can't resolve the problem by means of quality of outcome, even thought the desire is to create equality of opportunity, the ends do not ever justify the means.

You can't pay women the same as men in soccer, for the simple reason that by doing so you are manipulating the market to compensate for a perceived inequality, which the market has dictated. And the only way of achieving this is by means of manipulating the outcome (what they get paid) in hopes that the market will then compensate.

We also need to define the market, and not anecdotally that they currently scored more goals this season. The market is made up of billions of people who watch football all over the world, who go to the games, who subscribe to sports channels, who buy the merchandise, it's the football cubs, the brands who sponsor players, the advertising expenditure, the amount of money clubs sell the broadcasting rights to media companies for, what clubs pay for players, it's the entire industry that has been built up around this for the last 50 plus years. Then there's also the facts that males just happen to be far more physiologically interested in sport than women.

This conversation mostly has to do with men vs women's soccer world cup salaries, which is based on the market. Women's world cup viewership was at a record breaking 14 million this year, compared to the 3,6 billion viewership of the men's world cup, that is 0,4% of the men's world cup market. How is it equality to pay them the same?

It's like me saying I want to be paid 99.6% more because we do the exact same work, only you work for Apple Inc, and I work for Steemit Inc.