Should Women’s Football Be as Recognised as Men’s?

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Should women’s football be as recognised as men’s? 22 years ago, in 1993, women's football came under the auspices of The FA, that’s still a fairly recent date and it leaves a question on many people’s minds; Why isn’t women’s football as recognized as men’s? In this writing piece I will offer arguments as to why it should be recognized and argument’s to counter. Many people believe that women’s football isn’t as recognised as men’s due to the fact society is still stuck in a very sexist regime, many corporations’ main demographic is men, they feel if they start expressing gender equality in what’s stereotypically a man’s game, they will upset them and lose money, they believe this has caused a stalemate in the advances of women’s football and directly caused it to remain less recognised than men’s. To counter that argument however I’d refer back to my introduction, 22 years ago, the FA officially joined with the W(omens)FA to try and make women’s football more spread to the masses, the FA is one of the biggest footballing corporations in the world and make billions annually, yet they aren’t afraid to express constant support for gender equality in Britain, the FA hopes in the next 23 years both genders will be equally recognised within their beloved sport. It isn’t only social factors that circulate around gender equality (or differences) in football. Technology is also part of this due to the incredibly popular sports game franchise, FIFA. Not to be mistaken for the football federation for which the game was titled. For 18 years FIFA has been growing under the development of EA Sports. So many ponder as to why females have only been introduced in FIFA 16, the latest game in the franchise, when the FA have recognised football for 23 years? In response to that, first let me state that the FA and FIFA are two completely different organisations, the FA is

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