--- title: U.S. Women's Soccer Team Asks Federal Judge to Allow Strike description: "If the dispute continues, then there is a probability that the greatest women's soccer team in the world will not be participating in the Olympics" canonical: https://time.com/4350228/us-womens-soccer-judge-strike-pay-disparity/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-27T03:16:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:53:14.912Z article:section: Sports og:title: U.S. Women's Soccer Team Seeks Strike Over Pay Disparity og:description: "The pay disparity between men and women is just too large," Carli Lloyd said og:url: https://time.com/4350228/us-womens-soccer-judge-strike-pay-disparity/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt498ed55db5928b6c/69889550cd1bba37c9700e20/gettyimages-514550948.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2016 SheBelieves Cup - United States v Germany og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: U.S. Women's Soccer Team Seeks Strike Over Pay Disparity twitter:description: "The pay disparity between men and women is just too large," Carli Lloyd said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt498ed55db5928b6c/69889550cd1bba37c9700e20/gettyimages-514550948.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # U.S. Women's Soccer Team Asks Federal Judge to Allow Strike Over Pay Disparity by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News May 27, 2016 3:16 AM UTC  Hope Solo #1 and Carli Lloyd #10 of the United States celebrate after winning a match against Germany in the 2016 SheBelieves Cup on March 9, 2016 in Boca Raton, Fla. Hope Solo #1 and Carli Lloyd #10 of the United States celebrate after winning a match against Germany in the 2016 SheBelieves Cup on March 9, 2016 in Boca Raton, Fla.Mike Ehrmann—Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News May 27, 2016 3:16 AM UTC The world champion U.S. women’s national soccer team asked a federal judge on Thursday to clear the way for it to strike over alleged pay inequities just two months before the start of the Summer Olympic Games. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, who heard arguments in Chicago from lawyers for the players’ union and for the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF), didn’t say when she might rule, The Associated Press reported. The hearing came on the same day that the U.S. Senate passed by voice vote a [non-binding resolution](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-resolution/462/text) calling on the USSF to “immediately end gender pay inequity …” [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/u-s-women-s-soccer-team-asks-federal-judge-allow-n581371?cid=par-time%5F20160527) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4350228/us-womens-soccer-judge-strike-pay-disparity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4350228/us-womens-soccer-judge-strike-pay-disparity/"},"headline":"U.S. Women's Soccer Team Asks Federal Judge to Allow Strike Over Pay Disparity","datePublished":"2016-05-27T03:16:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:53:14.912Z","description":"\"If the dispute continues, then there is a probability that the greatest women's soccer team in the world will not be participating in the Olympics\"","url":"https://time.com/4350228/us-womens-soccer-judge-strike-pay-disparity/","keywords":["Soccer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt498ed55db5928b6c/69889550cd1bba37c9700e20/gettyimages-514550948.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt498ed55db5928b6c/69889550cd1bba37c9700e20/gettyimages-514550948.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 SheBelieves Cup - United States v Germany","caption":"2016 SheBelieves Cup - United States v Germany","creditText":"Mike Ehrmann—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/soccer/","name":"Soccer"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4350228/us-womens-soccer-judge-strike-pay-disparity/","name":"U.S. Women's Soccer Team Asks Federal Judge to Allow Strike Over Pay Disparity"}}]}] ```