The National Football League is taking a historical leap in football by opening up new front-office positions — such as sales and marketing, internet/new media, community relations — for women. It’s an issue the NFL has been wanting to focus on for the past year or so.

While it may be easy to look at the lack of women in the NFL in a negative light, the actual backbone of the situation is actually well supported.

While the NFL’s infamous history of insularity is notable, most of the positions in NFL office jobs are taken up by men who are former players.

All NFL teams consist of many male players who have signed contracts to not only play for certain amount of time, but after retirement, they are expected to take an office job that works with the football organization.

Recently, a new position has been created to to acknowledge women who are experienced and knowledgeable of the game. Former women’s football pro tackler Sam Rapoport has been given this position. Her job is to take acknowledged women and train them to fit the standards of desired jobs, as well as hopefully to create a social network that can lead these women to jobs involved with football.

To shed some positive light, it’s not as if women are not involved whatsoever at the moment. Currently, only about 30 percent of office positions are taken up by women. Last year, Sarah Thomas was the first woman to become a full-time referee, and in January 2016, Kathryn Smith became a full-time quality-control coach for the Buffalo Bills. The NFL is now wishing to make more steps in this direction.