In the midst of COVID-19 updates and adjusting to a new normal, it would have been easy to miss a significant update in the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) lawsuit that occurred earlier this month.

As a reminder, the team filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation in March 2019. The suit gained international attention when the team claimed another dominant victory in the 2019 Women’s World Cup. The crowd chanted “Equal Pay!” as the U.S. team celebrated their 4th World Cup victory on July 7th, 2019.

“The United States won its record fourth Women’s World Cup title and second in a row, beating the Netherlands 2-0 Sunday night.” (AP News)

“Three months before beginning their defense of their Women’s World Cup title, American players escalated their legal dispute with the U.S. Soccer Federation over equal treatment and pay. Players filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the federation… alleging ongoing ‘institutionalized gender discrimination’ that includes unequal pay with their counterparts on the men’s national team.” (AP News)

President Trump is facing criticism for signing an executive order revoking 2014 rules aimed at protecting equal pay for women—only days before Equal Pay Day, which was Tuesday. According to 2016 data from the Pew Research Center, for every dollar a white man in the U.S. earns, white women earn 82 cents, black women earn 65 cents, and Hispanic women earn 58 cents.

Maryland is on a roll right now when it comes to lawmaking on women's issues — passing two major laws in two weeks that advocates for women's economic security have spent years pushing for.

On Thursday, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) signed an equal pay law that advocates are calling one of the nation's strongest. It strengthens existing laws that prohibit discrimination based on gender, and also includes gender identity.

Women lose out on $500 billion annually due to the gender pay gap. But advocates and businesses are warming to the idea that more investment to help with child care could shrink the gap – and grow the economy.

Democrats made a big show Tuesday of promoting equal pay for women unfazed by data showing that both President Obama and leading presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton haven't walked the walk on pay equity.

President Obama declared Tuesday to be National Equal Pay Day, even as his White House has maintained a history of paying female staffers less than men.

National Equal Pay Day is a symbolic marker of how far into the year activists say a woman, on average, would need to work in order to earn as much a man did the year before.

Tuesday is Equal Pay Day, the day selected each year by the National Committee on Pay Equity, a coalition of women’s, civil rights and labor groups, to draw attention to how much longer women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. In 1963, when President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, a woman working full time year-round typically made 59 cents for every dollar paid to her male counterpart. By 2013, the latest year of available census data, it was 78 cents on the dollar.

Republicans in Congress have taken a lot of heat over the past few years for repeatedly blocking Democrats' equal pay legislation, so this year GOP women senators are proposing a bill of their own to combat the gender wage gap. But the GOP's stripped-down version of the Paycheck Fairness Act has so far garnered nothing but eye rolls from across the aisle.