--- title: Sports: Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue description: How women's soccer is a feminist issue, how proprietary tech hurts farms, America's fear of peace, shutting down law schools and more. canonical: https://time.com/4000360/womens-soccer-is-a-feminist-issue/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-17T16:01:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:01.521Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4000360/womens-soccer-is-a-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: 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 --- # Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue > Sponsored content. 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A paid TIME subscription is separate and available at time.com/subscribe-agent. by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 17, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 17, 2015 4:01 PM UTC _This week we’re presenting some of the most interesting ideas from the past year._ **1\.** [**Women’s soccer is a feminist issue. (From June 16, 2015)**](http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/womens-soccer-is-a-feminist-issue/394865/) By Maggie Mertens in the Atlantic **2\.** [**Time for open-source tractors. (From February 12, 2015)**](http://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-nightmare-farmers/) By Kyle Wiens in Wired **3\.** [**America is more afraid of peace than war. (From June 11, 2015)**](http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-addicted-war-afraid-peace-13085) By Gregory A. Daddis in the National Interest **4\.** [**Is it time to start shutting down law schools? (From July 6, 2015)**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-01/is-it-time-to-start-shutting-down-law-schools-) By Natalie Kitroeff in Bloomberg Business **5\.** [**Stop buying food in bulk. (From June 30, 2015)**](http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/06/bulk%5Fshopping%5Fcreates%5Ffood%5Fwaste%5Fshop%5Fmore%5Foften%5Finstead.html) By Eric Holthaus in Slate  [_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/4000360/womens-soccer-is-a-feminist-issue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4000360/womens-soccer-is-a-feminist-issue/"},"headline":"Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue","datePublished":"2015-08-17T16:01:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:01.521Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4000360/womens-soccer-is-a-feminist-issue/","keywords":["Innovation","war","Soccer","groceries","farms"],"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/4000360/womens-soccer-is-a-feminist-issue/","name":"Women's Soccer Is a Feminist Issue"}}]}] ```