Book Club Kit

Welcome to the Play on Book Club Kit! Get ready to dive into 140 years of the women’s game with a little help from guiding questions, thematic activities, and more. Whether you’re a soccer player or fan of women’s sports or not, we believe you’ll find a story that resonates within these pages.
Sample Question
The media has a huge influence on how women athletes are portrayed and in chapter 4 we learn that sponsors and the media tend to punish women more harshly than men for the same infractions. In what ways have you seen double standards in your work or life and what strategies have worked to challenge those standards?
Sample Activity
New Rules: As a group, create new ‘fouls’ and ‘advantages’ in work and life. What would be considered ‘yellow card’ offenses (calling for a warning) versus ‘red card’ offenses (ejection from the game)? What would ‘playing on’ look like?
Play On Book Club Kit
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Playing On: Asisat Oshoala’s Fight to Give Nigeria’s Girls a Chance
Asisat Oshoala's parents were reluctant to allow her to play football, believing it would distract her from her studies and that the sport was a dead end -- for girls. Today, Asisat Oshoala is a record-breaking international superstar, and she's using her platform to...
Celebrating Carmen Pomies, Certified Women’s Soccer Badass
Kicking off #WomensHistoryMonth with a notable figure from #womenssoccerhistory: Carmen Pomies. Not only was Carmen the first international player, having played for both France's Femina Sport FC and as a visiting team member of the legendary #dickkerrsladies in 1920,...
Double Standards, Sponsors and that Infamous Ponytail Yank: What Women’s Soccer Can Learn From 2009 Incident
It was about six minutes into our interview on Applebee’s Tailgate Talk when co-host Tim Lambert asked if I’d ever heard of Elizabeth Lambert. “We’re not kin,” he assured me. Elizabeth Lambert, for anyone not following women’s soccer in 2009, is the University of New...
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