Women were banned from playing football in many countries, but that’s just one of many barriers they have overcome.
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Inter Milan become the latest elite European football club to be taken over by a US investor.
Decades of unequal coverage in traditional media has prompted women’s sport to use social media to increase visibility.
Thousands of fans packed out stadiums for the 1971 women’s World Cup, but it has been virtually erased from history.
Imagine what female athletes could achieve if they were free from body pressure.
Women’s Super League clubs face troubling levels of debt.
To maintain the Lionesses’ achievements go one step further at future world cups, English football needs to invest in girls playing at academy level.
We’re experiencing a great sporting and cultural moment. But the Women’s World Cup needs to be more than a four-week football festival.
Like the rest of Australia, we have been following the world cup with growing emotional intensity. From the group chat to TikTok, the online alt-commentary on the game has been a joy.
Fans of women’s sport around the world are rejecting traditional masculine norms of sports fandom, and developing a counter fan culture.
Have you found yourself liking sport for the first time and wondering how you got here? Here’s what might be going on – and why it might be the best thing for your wellbeing.
Whatever happens in the quarter final against France, in many ways the Matildas have already won before they even set foot on the pitch.
On August 6, the Australian Diamonds won the Netball World Cup for the 12th time – but it received a fraction of the coverage the Matildas are getting.
The merchandise and clothing available to fans of women’s teams is often limited, undesirable or just not available.
Just 12 of the 32 teams at the Women’s World Cup have female coaches. The game needs to break down some deeply entrenched attitudes to bring more women in as managers at all levels.
As participation levels rise, TV viewing figures increase and sponsorship income improves year on year, what’s left to achieve for women in football?
Fifa is facing a bumpy road to balancing money and moral aspects of growing the Women’s World Cup.
The implications of the Canadian women’s soccer team’s World Cup loss goes beyond Canadian national pride.
Gender disparities in sport extend to injuries too. Female soccer players are at greater risk for ACL tears than males and it is clear immediate action is needed to address the non-biological factors for the injury.
The higher profile of the 2023 Women’s World Cup and the excitement around it should not fool people into thinking the female game ‘has made it’.
Top contributors
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Football Consultant & Visiting Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Governance in Women's Football, University of Portsmouth
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Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Principal Lecturer, Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of Portsmouth
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Nottingham Trent University
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer in Sports Business, Leeds Beckett University
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Lecturer in Sport and Fitness, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Mississippi State University
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor Social Sciences, Gender& Sexualities, Bournemouth University
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Lecturer in Film and Media, University of Stirling
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Principal Lecturer in Sport Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
