During the First World War, a Preston munitions factory set up a football team to provide an outlet for its female workers, drawing huge crowds. But it was not to last
Such was the popularity of the early women’s game that when the Dick, Kerr Ladies lined up against St Helen’s at Everton’s Goodison Park ground on Boxing Day in 1920, as many as 53,000 spectators turned up to watch – a figure that matched or exceeded attendances for comparable men’s games at the time and set a record for female football that would not be surpassed for the best part of a century.
A Scottish XI playing Dick, Kerr Ladies, during a fundraising match in aid of former servicemen, held at Tynecastle in Edinburgh, Scotland, 2 March 1921. Dick, Kerr Ladies FC, one of England’s earliest known women’s football teams, won the match 13-0. While it was not within the FA’s power to ban women from playing outright, they could – and did – prohibit the female game from using its stadia, banishing women to play in parks and wherever they could find a pitch.
Dr Stacey Pope, an expert on women’s football at Durham University who has examined contemporary male attitudes to the female game, said: “At this time, the growth of the sport was not met with approval from those who felt this challenged traditional gender roles and women’s supposedly ‘natural’ role in the home. There were also medical claims that due to the physicality of the sport, this was not suitable for women. Fast forward to modern day society and sexism is still widespread.
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