Football in the time of COVID-19: reflections on the implications for the women’s professional league in Colombia

Biram, Mark; Mina, Claudia Yaneth Martínez

doi:10.1080/14660970.2020.1797694

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“…Lack of resources, investment, misogyny and homophobia have plagued women’s football across Latin America (Elsey and Nadel, 2019), and this has had an impact on Colombia as well as Brazil. As far as Colombia is concerned, Biram and Martinez-Mina (2020: 5) state, ‘in a country where football has an increasingly discernible symbolic role, the point to which women remain relegated to the margins cannot be emphasized enough’, arguing that a long history of gender discrimination has been made increasingly apparent during Covid-19, during which time professional women’s football has been consistently overlooked in favour of supporting men’s leagues. Colombia’s bid was comparatively humble when asserting its role in advancing women’s football, acknowledging ‘deep traditions [that] made us believe, for many years, that football, as many other activities, were exclusively for men’ (2019: 3) and that ‘there is still a long way to go’ (Colombian Football Federation, 2019: 12) in developing professional women’s competitions.…”

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Mobilising gender equality: A discourse analysis of bids to host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™

Desjardins

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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After an exciting bidding process featuring competing submissions from Brazil, Colombia and Japan, Australia and New Zealand were chosen to co-host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™. Using feminist discourse analysis to examine the narrative strategies employed by the bidding nations, this article demonstrates that bidding nations discursively mobilised themes of gender equality to position their bids favourably. They did so by asserting themselves as leaders in women’s sport and gender equality, and by emphasising strategies for growing women’s football. Bidding nations situate themselves as benevolent rescuers of struggling women’s sport without acknowledging their accountability for policies and practices that disenfranchised women’s football in the first place. This article argues that the mobilisation of gender equality discourses by bidding nations problematically uses neoliberal feminist logics, stripping pro-women messages such as equal opportunity and empowerment of political context and repackaging them in commercially viable ways. Ultimately, although bidding nations use discourses of gender equality to position themselves favourably, existing levels of gender inequality reveal the limits of their positioning.

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Mobilising gender equality: A discourse analysis of bids to host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™

Desjardins

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Common responses have been inaction and a lack of communication and commitment, leaving the game clouded in uncertainties (Clarkson et al, 2020). Even economic help from FIFA, ringfenced for the women's game, has not always benefitted footballers who, in Columbia for example, have sometimes been left without a playing contract (Biram & Martinez-Mina, 2020). Furthermore the world players' union FIFPro (2020) reported that 47 per cent of women players have had their wages cut or suspended.…”

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An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, COVID-19 and governance of elite women's football in Australia, England and the USA

Clarkson

Parry

Culvin

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PurposeWomen's football faces an existential threat from COVID-19. Using case studies, the authors explore the COVID-19 responses of three highly ranked national football associations (Australia, England and the USA) and their professional women's football leagues to (a) compare and shed new insights into the wide range of phased responses and (b) establish recommendations for other nations to navigate major crises with their social and ethical responsibilities to women's football.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on institutional theory, a framework analysis was undertaken examining 71 articles to analyse the gendered global impacts of COVID-19 on women's football.FindingsResults highlight several important recommendations for nations to consider during the pandemic: (1) maintain active communication with the community to allay worries about the future of women's football, (2) gather support from health and government officials, (3) seek out commercial and broadcasting partnerships to drive revenue, and (4) the interests of women's football are best served when responsibility for the elite women's league does not rest (solely) with national football associations.Social implicationsThe authors argue that sport is an interwoven part of society and cannot be separated from gender equality issues irrespective of the pandemic.Originality/valueThe study is first to explore institutional pressures and football governing bodies during COVID-19 and provides a framework for nations to manage major crises.

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‘Si nos permiten jugar’: Constructing a Feminist Football in Latin America

Knijnik

Garton²

2022

Women’s Football in Latin America

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Football in the time of COVID-19: reflections on the implications for the women’s professional league in Colombia

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Mobilising gender equality: A discourse analysis of bids to host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™

Mobilising gender equality: A discourse analysis of bids to host the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™

An institutional analysis of gender (in)equalities, COVID-19 and governance of elite women's football in Australia, England and the USA

‘Si nos permiten jugar’: Constructing a Feminist Football in Latin America

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