--- title: FIFA: Why Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue description: How women's soccer is a feminist issue, community service journalism, an app for connecting students with scholarships and more. canonical: https://time.com/3922799/womens-soccer-feminist-issue/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-16T16:01:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:01.567Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3922799/womens-soccer-feminist-issue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 16, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 16, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Women’s soccer is a feminist issue.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/womens-soccer-is-a-feminist-issue/394865/) By Maggie Mertens in the Atlantic **2\.** [**Can community service journalism save local news?**](http://www.cjr.org/innovations/its%5Fhard%5Fto%5Fknow%5Fwhich.php) By Steven Waldman in the Columbia Journalism Review **3\.** [**This 99¢ app connects kids to thousands of scholarships.**](http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/15/scholly-an-app-for-finding-scholarships-partners-with-state-and-federal-programs/) By Fitz Tepper in TechCrunch **4\.** [**America is more afraid of peace than war.**](http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-addicted-war-afraid-peace-13085) By Gregory A. Daddis in the National Interest **5\.** [**Here’s how the LAPD is addressing use of force on the mentally ill.**](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0615/In-Los-Angeles-a-national-model-for-how-to-police-the-mentally-ill) By Noelle Swan in the Christian Science Monitor  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3922799/womens-soccer-feminist-issue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3922799/womens-soccer-feminist-issue/"},"headline":"Why Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue","datePublished":"2015-06-16T16:01:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:01.567Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3922799/womens-soccer-feminist-issue/","keywords":["Innovation","war","Journalism","Mental Illness","Soccer","scholarships","Women's World Cup"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3922799/womens-soccer-feminist-issue/","name":"Why Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue"}}]}] ```