Making women’s football a level playing field
A new project is aiming to break the last taboos in women’s football from periods to pregnancy.Staffordshire University is calling on women’s football clubs across the UK to help by identifying best practices in the sport which can be shared across Europe. Dr Jacky Forsyth, Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, explained: “We know that there are huge gender inequalities in sport but we want to focus on the positives and highlight what is actually being done well. Women’s football has made huge progress in recent years and by sharing best practice from grass roots to elite level we