For Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman of the United States, gender inequity isn’t complicated. It’s simply wrong.
“It’s not right. It’s not fair,” he said Wednesday during a brief visit to the practice facility for Angel City FC, the NWSL team that trains at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.
“It’s actually discrimination,” he said. “There is a misconception out there that if somehow a woman is succeeding, some guy out there is not. That’s not true. Women succeed, we all get lifted up.”
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And the disparities may be starkest in professional sports.