Football, the world’s most popular sport, carries a legacy of gender exclusion. Women were banned from playing in many jurisdictions and remain largely absent from its leadership. Implicit and/or conscious biases perpetuate the under-development and under-resourcing of the … [Read more...]

African women are increasingly participating in football at top levels such as the European and North American women’s football leagues, the Summer Olympic Games, and the Women’s World Cup finals. As more and more African women enter the local and global football circuits, … [Read more...]

This article aims to analyze the emergency and consolidation of the gender area of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata club, in the context of the advancement of feminism and women's movement in Argentina. Based on the ethnographic field work with the women who created the gender area … [Read more...]

Through biographic interviews with 23 women leaders in English football, this paper examines how women leaders make sense of ongoing inequalities in football and under what conditions they challenge or repudiate gender inequalities. With reference to feminist critiques of … [Read more...]

In this article, we analyze if some of the characteristics of New Latin American Constitutionalism can open a path to achieve gender justice in women’s soccer. Based on a study of the Colombian case, we seek to establish what type of opportunities and challenges are derived from … [Read more...]