When England soccer player Leah Williamson addressed the United Nations in New York this week she spoke of her recent visit to the world’s biggest Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.
“The world has been the way it has been for a long, long time,” she told The Associated Press before her address on Tuesday. “Not only do we face the stereotype from these sort of archaic beliefs that women are only meant to be a certain way ... But we are also conditioned to believe them. So I think it is not just a conversation that needs to be had with men, it needs to be had with women who can then find the confidence to take the opportunity when it is presented to them.
“There are so many things that we’ve been conditioned to believe ‘that’s what happens,’” Williamson said. “A woman walks down the street and she accepts certain things happen because that’s just the way of the world.” She added, “we can change it. That’s up to us. I’m trying. I’m doing my bit.”England’s preparations for the World Cup were cast against the backdrop of a dispute with the Football Association over bonuses and commercial arrangements.
Still she says more needs to be done to achieve parity, given women were officially banned from playing soccer in England from 1921 to 1970. In Za’atari, Williamson saw how the ‘Coaching for Life’ program positively impacted families affected by the Syrian war.
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