Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Women’s Rights in Motion is not a campaign about football. It is a campaign about systems, told through football.
As women’s football becomes more visible and professionalized, it reflects the same structural issues that shape women’s lives globally: unequal access to opportunities, norms built around limited definitions of the “standard,” gaps in economic recognition, and the often invisible role of care.
Across five episodes launched on the occasion of World Football Day on 25 May and released throughout the year on key International Days, professional players become the entry point into these issues. Their experiences show how structural inequalities take shape in concrete moments: who starts, who is paid, who continues, and who carries the cost.
At a time when global commitments on gender equality and social justice require renewed attention, Women’s Rights in Motion proposes a new way of speaking about inequality—where data is not explained from above, but encountered through lived experience.
Learn more unrisd.org/wrm
Women’s Rights in Motion is not a campaign about football. It is a campaign about systems, told through football.
As women’s football becomes more visible and professionalized, it reflects the same structural issues that shape women’s lives globally: unequal access to opportunities, norms built around limited definitions of the “standard,” gaps in economic recognition, and the often invisible role of care.
Across five episodes launched on the occasion of World Football Day on 25 May and released throughout the year on key International Days, professional players become the entry point into these issues. Their experiences show how structural inequalities take shape in concrete moments: who starts, who is paid, who continues, and who carries the cost.
At a time when global commitments on gender equality and social justice require renewed attention, Women’s Rights in Motion proposes a new way of speaking about inequality—where data is not explained from above, but encountered through lived experience.
Learn more unrisd.org/wrm
