Outputs (4)

Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams (2021)
Journal Article
Allison, R., & Pope, S. (2022). Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams. Sociology of Sport Journal, 39(3), 287-297. https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2021-0036

The professionalization, commercialization, and mediatization of women’s football have opened new opportunities for fan attachments, engagements, and identities. Yet limited empirical research has addressed how or why fandom develops for women’s foot... Read More about Becoming Fans: Socialization and Motivations of Fans of the England and U.S. Women’s National Football Teams.

Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers? (2021)
Journal Article
Gemar, A., & Pope, S. (2022). Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(4), 552-574. https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902211026472

Women sports fans have been substantially understudied compared to their male counterparts. While a growing number of studies seek to redress this, there remains a stark absence of quantitative approaches that would allow investigations regarding pat... Read More about Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?.

On the Periphery: Examining Women’s Exclusion from Core Leadership Roles in the “Extremely Gendered” Organization of Men’s Club Football in England (2021)
Journal Article
Bryan, A., Pope, S., & Rankin-Wright, A. J. (2021). On the Periphery: Examining Women’s Exclusion from Core Leadership Roles in the “Extremely Gendered” Organization of Men’s Club Football in England. Gender & Society, 35(6), 940-970. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432211046318

This paper frames men’s club football as an “extremely gendered” organization to explain the underrepresentation of women leaders within the industry. By analyzing women’s leadership work over a 30-year period, we find that women’s inclusion has been... Read More about On the Periphery: Examining Women’s Exclusion from Core Leadership Roles in the “Extremely Gendered” Organization of Men’s Club Football in England.

The Price of Success: Equal Pay and the US Women’s National Soccer Team (2021)
Journal Article
Culvin, A., Bowes, A., Carrick, S., & Pope, S. (2022). The Price of Success: Equal Pay and the US Women’s National Soccer Team. Soccer and Society, 23(8), 920-931. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2021.1977280

This commentary offers an analysis of the implications of the US Women’ National team Collective Action lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation. The players filed the lawsuit based on two grounds: first, that the US Soccer Federation violated the Eq... Read More about The Price of Success: Equal Pay and the US Women’s National Soccer Team.