Women’s Struggle for Athletic Equality stems to the Victorian Age

The obstacles facing women in sports are nothing new as this article illustrates. As football began to evolve in Great Britain during the end of the 19th century, the same patriarchal systems of sports-playing followed the birth of football. Women’s right to compete was quickly curtailed as it was considered unseemly for ladies at that time. This era was the deep inhalation before a time of social turbulence in the early 20th century. As women’s voting rights were realized and traditions of fashion and behavior were broken, soccer had yet to come to that point.

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