thats exactly the attitude that takes us backwards.
We are a small isolated country, with many different sports competing for the best talented female athletes. Some traditional very well resourced football powerhouses even in 'enlightened' Europe are only just taking the women's game seriously. Then you have large nations in South America, Africa and Asia that are almost totally football centric, only now starting to get their shark together. A WWC story I remember was Morocco (popn 37M) have just setup 2 divisions of pro women's football. These type of countries are going to have much bigger or more, talent pools of young female footballers coming through. Proper athletes.
I was briefly lost and strolled through a dodgy part (cheek & jowl with the wealthy part) of Panama City early last year, and came across some kids playing street football. The star a young black girl of about 12 with a proper impressive bag of tricks. A real street wise Macey Fraser. Get her on a College scholarship to the USA and who knows where she'd go.
The Ferns won't plummet down to FIFA ranking 100, like where the AWs sit - but an awful amount will have to go right in the female development space for them to consistently stay in the top 40 teams internationally.