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How female athletes can help advance the fight for fair pay

Olympian Duggan is among the U.S. women’s hockey players leading a charge for fairer treatment

THE WOMEN ON THE U.S. NATIONAL hockey team can recall even the smaller slights as vividly as a high stick to the face. There was the time the players weren’t invited to the public unveiling of the Team USA jerseys for the 2014 Winter Olympics; the inside collar of those jerseys commemorated men’s Olympic champions but not the 1998 gold-medal-winning women’s team. But it’s a much deeper disrespect—how much the women make

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