Women
Women have been involved in the game since its inception. There are women's footy players and even umpires in the AFL. However there still exist stereotypes against women and issues among football fans.
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Famous quotes containing the word women:
“To conclude his Character, where Women are not concerned, he is an honest worthy Man.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.”
—Kate Richards O’Hare (1877–1948)
“... not only do ... women suffer ... indignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)