Football by and for women. (Football par et pour les femmes.)

ABSTRACT

This special 2021 issue on football by and for women is part of a double topicality. On the one hand, it aims to echo the unprecedented media, scientific and sporting dynamics, particularly stimulated by the 8th FIFA Women's World Cup organized in France between June 7 and July 7, 2019;on the other hand, it constitutes an inventory of the social situation of female footballers before the Covid-19 pandemic. Indeed, at the start of 2021, the time is still full of uncertainties and concerns, which contrasts sharply with the apparent success of the World Cup in that it made it possible to embody and augur progress for the feminization of sport increase in licensees (especially in football where the bar of 200,000 licensees in France was crossed in March 2020, i.e. for the 50th anniversary of the integration of women in this federation), media coverage in full development, awareness inequalities at work in the policies of clubs and/or local authorities, etc.