- Brewer, Jerry. “Perspective | Words Matter, and U.S. Soccer Exposed Its Sexism in Its Latest Legal Filing.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 12 Mar. 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/sports/soccer/words-matter-and-us-soccer-exposed-its-sexism-in-its-latest-legal-filing/2020/03/11/4ff7e0e8-6395-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.htm
- Goff, Steven. “U.S. Women’s National Team Wins Again as Its Fight for Equal Pay Rages On.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 9 Mar. 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/03/08/us-womens-national-team-wins-again-its-fight-equal-pay-rages/.
- These are newspaper articles from a widely circulated newspaper, The Washington Post. They highlight the constant battle teams face to combat sexism, etc. The first article states that the U.S. soccer federation avoided using sophisticated language and resorted to sexism in their defense against a players wage discrimination lawsuit filed by the women’s team. They highlighted that women did not have the same physical attributes as men so they deserved less pay. In the second article, the emphasis on equality is brought up as the U.S. women’s soccer team continues to win but are shown no reward for it. Both of these articles are useful because they demonstrate the lengths organizations will go through just for no justice to be served. It also shows the superiority complex men have over the sport whereas women are seen as inferior and don’t deserve the time of day.
- Das, Andrew. “U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Sues U.S. Soccer for Gender Discrimination.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 8 Mar. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/sports/womens-soccer-team-lawsuit-gender-discrimination.html.
- This is a newspaper article from the New York Times. It gives details on the legal proceedings taking place between organizations. Two dozen members of the US women’s soccer team filed proceedings to the country’s soccer federation over pay equity and workplace conditions. The “institutionalized gender discrimination” they suffer affects everything such as paychecks, medical treatment, coaching, etc. This article helps me understand the fight for equality and the publicized efforts which spreads to other countries who also believe they can have their voice heard.
- Parker, Emma, and Laurent Dubois April 14. “U.S. Women’s Soccer – A System Outside Systemic Sexism.” Soccer Politics / The Politics of Football, 13 Apr. 2020, sites.duke.edu/wcwp/2020/04/13/u-s-womens-soccer-a-system-outside-systemic-sexism/.
- This is a blog post/scholarly journal from an individual at Duke University. There is a clear “Works Cited” page. It highlights the hierarchical system of soccer in the U.S. and the organizations that control it. Although women’s teams are more successful than the men’s, they don’t get the treatment they deserve. Women even are seen as more intelligent because they go to university, but money is not invested into them, so often to fail to make it on the big stage.
- Pfister, Gertrud. Female Football Players and Fans: Intruding into a Man’s World. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- This is a volume with editors and references. It covers the social sciences and history of women football players and fans including sports sociology, sport sciences, gender studies, leisure studies, and women’s studies. It details how women become football players and fans. It also covers the reactions and daily life of women in football communities online and in person and the strain of social media on their lives
- “Exposure to Women’s Sports: Changing Attitudes Toward Female Athletes.” The Sport Journal, 25 May 2018, thesportjournal.org/article/exposure-to-womens-sports-changing-attitudes-toward-female-athletes/.
- This a scholarly journal from an organization which features references. It highlights experiments done to track reactions pertaining to women in sport. It also asks the question whether broadcasters are choosing to show less of women’s sports so fans automatically assume it is boring. This relates to my topic because it is a study done to find out the root problem of why women’s soccer is shown less and how it impacts the viewers feelings towards it.
