Lady Dynamique Network has entered into a new partnership with Softfootball, with the aim to advance women’s empowerment in sports, with a focus on the often-overlooked grassroots challenges that limit women’s participation globally.
The collaboration, announced this week, seeks to confront structural and cultural barriers affecting female athletes, including period stigmatization, inadequate menstrual health support and the benching of players due to hormonal imbalances. These issues, frequently misunderstood or ignored within sporting systems, continue to sideline women and girls across levels of play.
Representatives from Softfootball said the partnership reflects a broader commitment to inclusive sports development that accounts for women’s lived realities. “Many women are excluded from sports not because of performance, but because their bodies are treated as problems rather than facts,” a Softfootball statement said. “This partnership is about creating environments that work with women, not against them.”
Lady Dynamique Network emphasized that menstrual health and hormonal wellbeing remain global barriers, particularly in grassroots and under-resourced settings. In many communities, female athletes report being discouraged from training during their menstrual cycles, lacking access to basic sanitary products, or being benched without medical justification.
The partnership will prioritize education, community engagement and policy advocacy. Planned initiatives include workshops for female coaches and sports administrators, athlete-centered health education, and campaigns aimed at normalizing conversations around menstruation and hormonal health in sports spaces.
The collaboration has already begun rolling out. As an initial show of solidarity, Softfootball is supporting Lady Dynamique Network’s upcoming poetry collection, a project centered on women’s voices and creative expression. Both organizations described the sponsorship as a deliberate statement that women’s empowerment must extend beyond sports into all areas of life, including the arts and cultural production.
“Women do not exist in silos,”Nympha Ozougwu, founder of Lady Dynamique Network said in a statement. “Supporting women’s creative development is inseparable from supporting their physical, emotional and social wellbeing.”
While women’s sports have gained increased global visibility in recent years, progress remains uneven, particularly when it comes to health accommodations and grassroots participation. Both partners agree on one fact: that sustainable change requires addressing biological realities alongside institutional inequality; hence, this initiative which has been designed to be globally adaptable, with the potential to resonate across different cultural and regional contexts.