Introduction to essay

How Far are women represented in football and the media?

There is clear evidence to prove that women have been playing football almost since its ancient existence in the Han dynasty (25-220 AD), when it was anciently known as “Tsu Chu” [1]. But despite women’s involvement in the sport dating so far back, the sport clearly receive much less media coverage and generally much less acceptance by the public then there is for men’s football. There are arguably a number of reasons for this the most commonly perceptible being that women simply do not play the sport as good as men. There are a number of causes that have prevented and till date hinder the progression of women’s football. Under a century ago “Despite being more popular than some men's football events” [1] within the U.K. the most notable historical ban in women’s football the "1921 Football association ban on women playing football" [1] was introduced. Despite such preventions to the women’s football it has gradually in recent times has began to be much more socially acceptable. For example the china world cup 2007, had so much viewer ship and was so popular worldwide, it to an extent caused outrage and was the key cause for debate amongst many people who did not expect the event to be so widely enjoyed and entertain [2]. However despite there being many historical limitations and limitations existing till date, women’s football has now progressed to become "one of the worlds fastest growing sports [3].


Links used
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_football_(soccer)
[2]http://www.fifa.com/womenworldcup/news/newsid=610976.html
[3]http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=u9YGVblAc1oC&dq=soccer+women+and+sexual+liberation&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=a6OfGcxY8j&sig=NuWnnckd8LORgkbwg3-UObeQl4w

Books used

Hong,F.A.,Mangang,J.A.(2004): Soccer, women and sexual liberation. USA,CA:Routledge