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Not quite. The tl;dr is the women's team turned down the men's contract and instead bargained their own contract with higher base pay for players and better benefits in exchange for a smaller payout based on actual performance. Then they won the world cup, so they claimed gender discrimination because if they were on the men's contract they would have made EVEN MORE money because of the performance-based nature of the contract they turned down. So they sued, but the case was thrown out because they also make more than the men's team. So they make more AND do so under a contract they willfully negotiated. Then US Soccer offered them the men's contract again and they turned it down again claiming they were being given a raw deal.

The only real sticking point is that FIFA paid out bigger bonuses to the men because it's based on a percentage of revenue for each league, and since men's soccer is far, far more viewed the men got a bigger FIFA paycheck, but that's about it.