re: USWNT's Rapinoe to Congress: 'We don't know the real potential of women's sports'

I’m not exactly sure about the details of what happened in their contract negotiations, but didn’t they pretty much choose a crappy payment structure which ended up being low risk, low reward, thus their payment was lower than its potential? Had they structured it like the men did, wouldn’t they taken a higher risk for a potentially higher reward? So, the only real thing standing in the way of women reaching their potential is women, which is not surprising.