ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the young women who have followed their passion for soccer, along with some older, professional women who have joined their journey to embrace the sport as a space for community-based transformative action. It explores the ways in which these women have navigated socio-cultural and socio-economic constraints in this journey, the significant advances they have made in recent years and how these have come about as an outcome of their effective and creative appropriation of opportunities that came their way. Solomon Islands consists of nearly 1,000 islands in the south-western Pacific Ocean. Solomon Islands is classified by the World Bank as a small state with high institutional and social fragility. Gender equality is formally endorsed by the national government, which ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 2002.
