* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

Women have been playing association football since the first recorded women's game in 1895 in North London.

This perception began to change in the 1970s with the breakthrough of organised women's association football.

Association football is the most prominent team sport for women in several countries, and one of the few women's team sports with professional leagues.

The growth in women's football has seen major competitions being launched at both national and international level mirroring the male competitions.

The FA's ban was rescinded in December 1969 with UEFA voting to officially recognise women's football in 1971.

* List of women's association football clubs

* List of women's football clubs

* List of women's national football teams

* Cleveland Fusion, a women's American football team in the NWFA

The school offers a range of men's and women's varsity sports, including football, baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, track & field, cross country, tennis, and soccer.

Students compete in football, basketball, soccer, women's swimming, diving, women's volleyball, baseball, women's lacrosse, field hockey, golf, cross country, track and field, and softball.

* 1992 – Ria Popović, English born, Serbian women's football player,

* AZS Wrocław — women's football team ( 1st league in season 2003 / 2004 )

Besides hosting the Brahmas ' football and women's soccer teams, John Shepard Stadium ( current capacity 5, 500 ) The stadium was expanded to 16, 000-person capacity for the game.

It is also responsible for appointing the management of the men's, women's and youth national football teams.

The local football teams are not quite as successful, but still pretty popular, on the men's side especially the teams Friska Viljor FC from central Örnsköldsvik and Anundsjö IF from Bredbyn outside of town, and women's Själevads IK.

* Malin Moström, captain and key player in the Sweden women's national football team is also a native of Örnsköldsvik.

The university is known for its football team and Lady Techsters women's basketball program which won three national championship titles ( 1981, 1982, 1988 ) and made 13 Final Four appearances in the program's history.

* Redding Rage, professional women's football team based out of Redding, California

* Hedvig Lindahl, goalkeeper for Sweden women's national football team, has been diagnosed with vilitigo since the age of 5.

For women's national teams, UEFA operates the UEFA Women's Championship for senior national sides as well as Women's Under-19 and Women's Under-17 Championships.

Unofficial women's European tournaments for national teams were held in Italy in 1969 and 1979 and won by Italy and Denmark, but there was no formal international tournament until 1982 when the first UEFA European Competition For Representative Women's Teams was launched.

RTS also holds rights to broadcast the Dakar Rally, Australian Open, Fed Cup, Winter Olympic Games, Davis Cup, Serbia Open, UEFA Champions League, FIFA World Cup, FIBA World Championship, European Water Polo Championship, European Men's Handball Championship, US Open, Roland Garros, Universiade, European Athletics Championships, European Volleyball League ( both men's and women's ), FIVB World League, FIVB Men's World Championship, Premier League, ATP Masters Series ( Serbian players only ), ATP tour, Tour de France and FIVB Women's World Championship.

** UEFA Women's Champions League, an annual European competition for women's clubs

A founding member of both FIFA and UEFA, the DFB has jurisdiction on the German football league system and is in charge of the men's and women's national teams.

That same year, its women's team was crowned league champions for the first time, thereby qualifying for the UEFA Women's Champions League, but were eliminated 2 – 5 on aggregate in the round-of-32, by Russia's WFC Rossiyanka.

The women's team has also won three Challenge de France titles and the UEFA Women's Champions League in 2011 and 2012.

FFC Frankfurt defeated Umeå IK 3-2 in the stadium on 24 May 2008 in the final second leg of UEFA Women's Cup, winning the European Cup for the third time and setting up a record for women's club football of 27, 500 spectators.

In addition to league, cup and UEFA Cup matches for LSK, the venue has been used for one Strømmen IF top-league match in 1986, the UEFA Women's Euro 1997, eight other Norway women's national football team matches, the 2002 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship, and seven Norway national under-21 football team matches.

The France women's national team initially struggled on the international stage failing to qualify for three of the first FIFA Women's World Cups and the six straight UEFA European Championships before reaching the quarter-finals in the 1997 edition of the competition.

The UEFA European Women's Championship, also called the UEFA Women's Euro and unofficially the " European Cup ", held every fourth year, is the main competition in women's association football between national teams of the UEFA Confederation.

The competition is the women's equivalent of the UEFA European Championship.

With increasing popularity of women's football, the competition was given European Championship status by UEFA around 1990.

The UEFA Women's Champions League is the first international women's association football club competition for teams that play in UEFA nations.

The France women's national team initially struggled on the international stage failing to qualify for three of the first FIFA Women's World Cups and the six straight UEFA European Championships before reaching the quarter-finals in the 1997 edition of the competition.

Due to receiving minimal support from the French Football Federation, who ultimately looked at women's football as not being highly regarded, France struggled in international competition failing to advance past the first round of qualification in both the 1984 and 1987 UEFA Women's Championship.

She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.

I think for example of three women's colleges with pitifully small enrollments, clustered within a few miles of a major Catholic university, which is also co-educational.

Chiefly remembered because of his incessant advocacy of `` immediate and unconditional abolition '', he also espoused a great variety of other causes -- among them women's rights, prohibition, and justice to the Indians.

He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.

She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

While some women's bicycles continue to use this frame style, there is also a variation, the mixte, which splits the top tube laterally into two thinner top tubes that bypass the seat tube on each side and connect to the rear fork ends.

The women's Ultimate club team, known as " Snatch ", has also been very successful in recent years, ranking 44 of over 200 college teams in the Ultimate Player's Association.

The accident caused the Missouri Valley Conference to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be " launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels " for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the NCAA that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.

Daughter Gina Campbell has been heavily involved in the project to restore the " Bluebird ", and has also contributed to the family legacy in a more direct way, by setting the women's world water speed record in 1984 in " Bluebird II ", at.

Garrett Anderson was also active in the women's suffrage movement.

Studies also found that equal educational levels did not — in any category of training — prevent women's wages from lagging behind those paid to men.

Efforts were undertaken not only to place women in occupations dominated by males, but also to bring males into fields traditionally believed to belong to the women's sphere, such as child care and elementary school teaching.

The decade probably also saw the so-called " women's pictures ", such as Now, Voyager, Random Harvest and Mildred Pierce at the peak of their popularity.

The " FA Cup " is run by and named after the Football Association and usually refers to the English men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held.

Sylvia Tamale argues that this was done not only in defiance of the council's cooperation with the colonial authorities, but also in protest against its interference with women's decisions about their own rituals.

She was transferred from Mauthausen to the notorious women's concentration camp at Ravensbruck, located 50 miles from Berlin, where unbeknownst to Gemma at the time, her daughter Yolanda ( whose husband also died in the camps ) and baby grandson were also held for a year in a separate barrack.

Rüling, who also saw " men, women, and homosexuals " as three distinct genders, called for an alliance between the women's and sexual reform movements, but this speech is her only known contribution to the cause.

The IHF also organizes women's and men's junior world championships.

Stefka Kostadinova ( Bulgaria ) has held the women's world record at 2. 09 metres since 1987, also the longest-held record in the event.

They also prohibited usury and took a number of measures in favor of women's rights, by declaring equality of the sexes and introducing women to political life.

Some Christian sects throughout history and up to modern times have also religiously proscribed the cutting of women's hair.

Hinkle hosted the Indiana High School Athletic Association Championships for many years ( including Milan's 1954 championship ), Butler University also is notable for its men's and women's basketball teams.