The pain began in the leg, then soon radiated out from the ankle, down to the toes, up through the knee, into the stomach, fanning out into the arms, and subsided only after the pain reached my fingernails. But nearly 40 million Americans, unburdened by bad soccer memories, watched the U. S. Women's Soccer World Cup Final, along with nearly one billion more worldwide. Initially, game planners suggested playing the matches in smaller arenas, to avoid the embarrassment of hosting a game in an 85,000-person stadium, and have only 4,000 show up. The team played before sell-out crowds. Some of us lived through the feminist movement of the '60s and the '70s, and grew up during bra-burning, equal pay for equal work, Roe vs. Wade , the Pill, the National Organization for Women, and the emergence of women as players and employers in the workforce.
Women outnumber men on college campuses.
Over 40 percent of today's medical and law-school graduates are women. Women sit on the Supreme Court, serve in the President's Cabinet, and run colleges as presidents. Women outlive men, and, therefore, ultimately decide property disposition. More women vote than men. A woman has run for vice president on the Democratic ticket, and Elizabeth Dole credibly contends for the Republican presidential nomination.