5What is the main idea of this text?Megan Rapinoe is a co-captain of the U.S. women’s soccer team and an outspoken advocate for women’s issues, and she was part of the women’s soccer team that won the World Cup in 2019.Even though soccer is much more popular internationally than it is in the U.S., the U.S. women’s soccer team is very successful.In 2019, the entire U.S. women’s soccer team attended a parade where they protested the unequal treatment they were receiving from the United States Soccer Federation, the organization that runs soccer.The U.S. women’s soccer team is extremely successful, partly because of anti-discrimination laws in the U.S., but team members are still fighting for equal pay and treatment.

Read the following sentences from the text.“Though the U.S. women’s team is consistently top-ranked—and the men’s team is not—members of the men’s team are better paid, with better travel and field conditions. So when the women won the World Cup in 2019, the female team was ready to tangle. During the ticker tape parade, Crystal Dunn, the team’s left back, held a sign proclaiming, ‘Parades are cool. Equal pay is cooler,’ and fans supported them, chanting, ‘USA! Equal pay!’”What can you conclude about the U.S. women’s soccer team based on this information?

In the lead-up to the 2023 Women’s World Cup, Visa launched the Behind Every Number, There’s A Story campaign, highlighting its 20-year support of women in sports and sponsorship of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. In groups discuss the research methods that could be used to evaluate the inputs, outputs, outtakes and outcomes of the campaign.

4When the U.S. women’s soccer team won the World Cup in 2019, they got a lot of public attention. How would you describe the way that they responded to this public attention?They got upset because of all the media attention, especially from magazines.Some of them were happy but most of them were upset with the attention.They used it to make more people aware of the issue of gender pay equity in soccer.They all left the country to get some peace and quiet, away from the media.

What does paragraph 19 reveal about the author's perspective on the future of female dress codes?A. Change and progress will happen in spite of opposition.B. Change and progress will halt due to the outcry of opponents.C. Change and progress will damage the future of female athletics.D. Change and progress will become too extreme for people to accept.

What is this paper about? Context: The 2010s have made gender neutrality and sensitivity exceedingly visible in our everyday lives, as social media spreads information fast and internet activism is at its peak. The world is becoming increasingly more accepting towards gender minorities and due to this they have started to become more heard in issues regarding their own rights. One of the groups of people who face substantial oppression are nonbinary people – they exist outside of the gender binary and are still constantly fighting for their place in society. Some nonbinary people still use the binary pronouns he and she, but many prefer to use gender-neutral pronouns, for example singular they (McNabb 2017, 9). In addition to this, they has become more widespread in situations where people are not aware of a person’s gender (Bradley 2020, 5). This is better than using the generic he, for example, which is seemingly gender-neutral because it has been defined so, but still creates the image of a male for the recipient. However, there are also newer gender-neutral pronouns, called neopronouns, “that are increasingly used in place of ’she,’ ’he,’ or ’they’ when referring to a person” (UNC Greensboro, Neopronouns Explained). The purpose of this study is to research how frequent neopronouns ze, xe and zie are in today’s world and where and how they are used. Section 2 provides the theoretical background for the study, and section 3 discusses the materials and methods of the study. Section 4 delves deeper into the data and analyzes it. 1.1 Motivation Language shapes our views and thoughts, and in the case of minorities the wrong kind of language can truly harm others. For example, in a study done by Stonewall and University of 2 Cambridge it was found that “nearly one in four (23 per cent) lesbian, gay and bisexual young people have tried to take their own life at some point” and “more than half (56 per cent) of gay young people deliberately harm themselves, which can include cutting or burning themselves” (2012, 4). For trans youth these numbers are often even higher, as gender minorities are generally more discriminated against. According to The Trevor Project’s National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health 2020, young trans people who had their pronouns respected by most of the people close to them were half as likely to attempt suicide than those whose pronouns were not respected. Thus, it is not insignificant which words are used when referring to people and more specifically, which pronouns. This study aims to shed more light on the importance of inclusive language and provides an indepth look into the three gender-neutral neopronouns ze, xe and zie. The internet holds a substantial amount of information about neopronouns written mostly by young, nonbinary people themselves, but I was not able to find any previous academic studies considering this specific subject, and therefore this is an important topic to research.