Surfing Life

THE $100K

eal change generally requires a generational shift to occur before the fruits of its prior labour are fully realised. For the forerunners, the battle towards pay equality in surfing has been a lifelong pilgrimage. But for a young Floridian pro surfer named Caroline Marks, her first equal pay cheque came at the age of seventeen, in just her second year on tour – the fruit of those who

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