The victory parade down New York's Canyon of Heroes for the United States women drew the admiration of both girls and boys, a sign of the progress towards equality, writes Jesse...
NEW YORK — Wearing my 2-year-old daughter on my back for the U.S. women’s soccer team’s ticker-tape parade through Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes on Friday, it was impossible not to think of what the World Cup champions’ achievement means in the world she will grow up in.
By now, that should be pretty clear. Enough words have been written about the legacy of Title IX, the impact of the 1999 World Cup and the rising prominence of female athletic achievement that you could read about it right up until it’s time for the Americans to defend that world championship in four years.