To hear prominent Democrats and their allies tell it — and they’ve been telling it for well over a decade — America’s failure to provide the WNBA and its players with the same financial and cultural benefits as their male counterparts represented a kind of collective moral failing.
“I am for equal pay for equal work,” Barack Obama said while celebrating the 2015 Minnesota Lynx’s WNBA championship. Although the president’s remark advanced his administration’s effort at the time to promulgate the existence of a “gender pay gap,” a concept his own Bureau of Labor Statistics disputed, Obama made promoting the WNBA, and women’s sports broadly, a priority.
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