This new exhibition showcases enduring memories and tackles challenges facing female football fans in the UK.
- Professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University
Women embracing football as fans has neither led to greater equality nor resolved issues around their safety. These issues need to be addressed urgently.
We examined how newspapers in the UK covered the 2015 and 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cups.
We can build on the tournament to raise the profile of women’s sport.
While things are improving for the women’s game in terms of equality, a series of depressing instances of blatant misogyny show there is a long way to go.
Watching big events, like the Olympics, on television was a key route into fandom.
The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup ushered in a new age for media coverage of women’s sport. A new survey of fans shows that while many men feel threatened, a growing number are on board.
Could the pandemic be the end of the women’s game? Action must be taken to safeguard it.
The struggles of being a female sports fan.
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