You can’t. Two words women and girls have heard for centuries. One night Laura sat on the couch and was frustrated. Frustrated about her current situation, working in the corporate world, but also frustrated about the existing injustice in women’s football. She was angry that she saw more stories about horses then women in the sports pages. She was annoyed that women who play professional football do not get the same pay as their male team mates. She saw far less opportunities for girls and women to play sport and fewer role models to look up to. She wanted to change the conversation and wanted to create an equal field. Because she hopes that in thirty years time, this whole topic won’t even be a conversation at all. The co-founder of the Equal Playing Field initiative said: “The playing field is not equal. We wanted to use the climb of Kilimanjaro to highlight the gender inequalities faced today by women in sport. Women have fewer opportunities to play sport, get paid less when they do, and don’t get the same coverage or respect in the media. I don’t want to be having this same discussion with my future children.” Laura has […] Read More
Juli was nine when she escaped the violence perpetrated by drug cartels. Her physicist father pursued his PhD at Sweden’s Uppsala University while her anthropologist mother worked on her master’s thesis. Read More
Esraa learned from a very young age to face a lot of obstacles being a girl — a girl who not only plays football, but a girl who actually plays better than a lot of boys too. Read More
