<svg class="email-subscription__icon" width="51" height="36" viewbox="0 0 51 36" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M1 1H50M1 1V35M1 1L25.5 22.8571L50 1M50 1V35M50 35H1M50 35L33.2322 16.0037M1 35L17.7213 16.0571" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"/> </svg> Be the first to get hottest news from our Editor-in-Chief <br>Thank you!<br>Check your email and confirm your subscription<br>You are already subscribed to our newsletter!<br>Check your inbox to be the first to know the hottest news<br> This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google <a href='https://policies.google.com/privacy'>Privacy Policy</a> and <a href='https://policies.google.com/terms'>Terms of Service</a> apply. <br>Global site navigation<br><strong>PAY ATTENTION:</strong> <a id="https://yen.com.gh/188918-new-facebook-algorithm-how-yen-news-newsfeed-now.html" href="https://yen.com.gh/188918-new-facebook-algorithm-how-yen-news-newsfeed-now.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click</a> “See First” under the “Following” tab to see YEN.com.gh News on your News Feed! <br>Ace Ghanaian female boxer Yarkor Annan, better known as Yarkor Chavez, has opened up on the first earnings she received as a professional fighter in a male-dominated field.<br>Ghana's first and oldest professional female boxer began her boxing career at Bukom in the Greater <a href="https://yen.com.gh/tag/accra/">Accra</a> Region, where she was born and grew up.<br><a href="https://youtu.be/tVF6iPWdVuo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">In an interview </a>on Graphic Online TV, she disclosed that her first prof fight was with a Nigerian female boxer, which she won.<br>Read also<br><span class="c-article-read-also__headline-hover-inner">GH teacher who quit her job to sell pastries on the street recounts her journey</span><br><strong>PAY ATTENTION</strong>: Follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/yencomghnews/" title="Instagram - Yen" rel="nofollow">Instagram</a> - get the most important news directly in your favourite app!<br>Annan had to balance her boxing career and her work as a hairdresser and pedicurist to make ends meet till she met a BBC reporter who she named as only George.<br>George documented her story and fulfilled a promise to get her a local manager named Sam Nortey despite having Solomon Otoo as her local manager in Ghana.<br>Annan's career took off when she travelled with her promoter to the UK to have her first fight outside Ghana.<br>After a career spanning over 20 years, Yarkor Chavez says she cannot boast of a single property in her name.<br>Read also<br><span class="c-article-read-also__headline-hover-inner">“I used to style my roommates”: First-class UG graduate turned hairdresser shares her touching story</span><br>Now the Queen Mother of Adjen Kotoku, a town in Ga West Municipal District of the Greater Accra Region, she shares her story in the video below.<br><strong>YEN.com.gh</strong> previously reported that Lois Bailey is a venturesome student at the <a href="https://yen.com.gh/108839-university-education-winneba-distance-education-2020.html">University of Education</a>, Winneba,<a href="https://yen.com.gh/195584-meet-uew-student-combining-her-university-education-work-a-painter.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> making strides in a male-dominated </a>occupation as a female creative painter. <br>Despite the challenges she has encountered in her young career, she is determined to break barriers and become one of the most loved painters in Ghana.<br>Some of her clients undermine and underrate her judgment and expertise because of her gender, but she is eager to exceed expectations for herself.<br>In a similar story published on <strong>YEN.com.gh</strong>, a 54-year-old Ghanaian woman, Augustina Addo Frimpong, <a href="https://yen.com.gh/190564-women-wheels-meet-augustina-frimpong-female-driver-stc-bus-transport.html">has made a striking gender statement</a> with her laudable achievement in the country's male-dominated transport industry. <br>Read also<br><span class="c-article-read-also__headline-hover-inner">GH widow of 3 falls flat, breaks down in tears as she receives GH¢450 from charity; 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