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FIFA Women's Football World Cup Qualification 2019, Austria versus Serbia on 5 April 2018. (Photo: Granada)

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Resetting the gender balance through football

FIFA Women's Football World Cup Qualification 2019, Austria versus Serbia on 5 April 2018. (Photo: Granada)

Sport has long been acknowledged as a natural social leveller – once the competitors are in the arena, nothing else counts.

But sometimes 'nature' needs a nudge. Many sports, like football, have been so heavily male-dominated at every level that women and girls have battled against poor odds to be treated as equals in the game.

As part of a package of reforms announced by FIFA in 2016, to improve the governance of football, the international body pledged to put gender equality an...

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