More nations ending soccer’s gender wage gap: ‘This could change things’
Sep 28, 2020
4 minutes
When she was playing soccer as a child, Rashidatu Kamara never had reason to believe she couldn’t be one of the boys.
From the time she was 8 years old, they welcomed her into pickup games in their neighborhood cemetery in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Soon, she was so good that her friends would nearly come to blows about whose side she was going to play for that day.
“They never gave me reason to doubt that a girl could play,” she says.
That came later, when Ms. Kamara was called up to her national team. The first time she represented her country in a tournament abroad, she made $300, a princely sum
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