This is what makes the WUSA so unique - and important. It's another step in the evolution of women's sports that started almost 30 years ago when Title IX was enacted into law. The WUSA is tangible. What makes the WUSA different from any other professional sports league is its mission. The WUSA presents itself as role models first and foremost.
Soccer is their medium to reach out to their family-oriented fan base.
The WUSA is not original. Women's basketball has introduced two leagues in the past decade, and soccer even had its W-League. With better self-esteem could evolve fewer eating disorders, smoking habits, suicidal tendencies and susceptibility to abuse. Leagues such as the WUSA can curb the dropout rate of girls in youth sports, which the Women's Sports Foundation says is about six times higher for girls under age 14 than for boys. Rick Skervin, the executive director of the Georgia Youth Soccer Association, said that more than 40 percent of the current enrollment in statewide youth soccer is female.