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Brian Uribe
Professor Bieber
English 115 Honors
20 October 2015
Women on the Field
They have higher production values, higher-quality coverage, and higher-quality commentary...
When you watch womens sports, and there are fewer camera angles, fewer cuts to shot, fewer
instant replays, yeah, its going to seem to be a slower game, [and] its going to seem to be less
exciting.(Cooky).
For their win, the U.S. team will earn $2 million. By comparison, Germany received $35
million in 2014 after winning the Mens World Cup Final in Brazil. And the U.S. Mens team
won $8 million after losing in Round 16. Last year, $576 million was set aside for Mens World
Cup rewards. This year, a total of $15 million in prizes was available for the Womens World
Cup. (Shalby).
Social motives were not as significant as hedonics or the sense of self-identification when it
comes to deciding whether to follow women's soccer or the United States Women's National
Team, but they seemed to influence involvement in the sport, or at least US Soccer merchandise
ownership, much more than any other factors. (Conche).
The findings indicated a significant effect of gender on instrumental aggression and referees
decisions related to these behaviors. Male players displayed more instrumental aggressive acts

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than female players did. Nevertheless, relative to the total number of aggressive acts displayed,
referees penalized women more than men (Coulomb).
Although popular discourse claims that elite female athletes serve as effective role models for a
broad set of characteristics, theoretical and empirical perspectives on athletes as role models are
sparse and somewhat inconsistent (Guest)

Works Cited
Coche, Roxane. "What Women's Soccer Fans Want: A Twitter Study." Soccer and Society, 15.4
(2014): 449-471.
Coulomb-Cabagno, Genevive, Olivier Rascle, and Nicolas Souchon. "Players Gender and
Male Referees Decisions About Aggression in French Soccer: A Preliminary
Study." Sex Roles, 52.7 (2005): 547-553.
Cooky, Cheryl. ""It's Dude Time!"" Invited Article Sage Publications, 05 June 2015. Web. 20
Oct. 2015.

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Guest, AM, and S Cox. "Using Athletes as Role Models? Conceptual and Empirical Perspectives
from a Sample of Elite Women Soccer Players." International Journal of Sports Science
& Coaching, 4.4 (2009): 567-581.
Shalby, Colleen. "U.S. Women's Soccer Team Gets $2 Million for World Cup Win; German
Men Got $35 Million in 2014." PBS. PBS, 06 July 2015. Web. 20 Oct. 2015