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Julie E. Brice, Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, California State University, Fullerton

Long-range goals: can the FIFA World Cup help level the playing field for all women footballers?

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There’s little doubt the FIFA Women’s World Cup will deliver spectacle and significant financial rewards when it kicks off in a fortnight. The longer-term rewards, however, are harder to predict.

Tens of thousands of visitors will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to follow the matches across Australia and New Zealand – the first FIFA women’s football tournament to be hosted across two countries and two football confederations.

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