Until recently a football career and motherhood were considered incompatible, by both governing bodies and the footballers themselves. But at the Women’s World Cup, this is starting to change
generation of American women footballers have already struck one significant blow for equality. In 2022 they forcedSoccer, their governing body, to agree to pay those in the national team as much as their male peers, and to fork out $24m in back pay. At the Women’s World Cup, which began in New Zealand on July 20th, several members of the team want to tackle another of the sport’s shibboleths: motherhood.
That began to change in 2019, when the female players’ associations in Spain and Argentina approached’s senior counsel, Alexandra Gómez Bruinewoud, the union had a clear idea of what protections should exist but no documentation. A year of rapid negotiations with, the sport’s governing body, produced a basic set of rules by which all national associations have to abide. These include offering a minimum of 14 weeks of maternity leave, of which at least eight must be taken after the birth.
America’s 23-woman squad contains three mums, Crystal Dunn, Julie Ertz and Alex Morgan , all of whom have spoken openly on the subject. All have brought their children to the tournament. After all, they insist, the football field is no different from any other place of work; family life often runs alongside it. Thirty years ago, two mothers in the American team had to petitionSoccer to pay for a nanny to accompany the squad.
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