- Title
- Developing sport for girls and adolescents
- Creator
- Eime, Rochelle; Casey, Meghan; Harvey, Jack
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180579
- Identifier
- vital:15770
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367854201-3
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781000040500 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- This chapter presents and discusses sport participation trends among female children and adolescents, and investigates the key drivers for female participation in sport across the Individual, Social, Organisational and Environmental domains of the socio-ecological model. Sport participation rates differ according to many factors, including gender, age and residential location of participants, and the types of sport programmes, and other activities. However, consistently females participate in sport at lower rates and are more likely to drop-out of sport than males. Recently opportunities for females to play a sport of their choice have increasingly become available. Sport policies and investment, specifically targeting growth of female participation in sport, have increasingly been observed. However, there are still barriers which limit female participation in sport. At the population level, strategic policy and significant investment will be required to increase capacity of facilities and club volunteers, as well as continued cultural change regarding gender equity. © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Emma Sherry and Katie Rowe.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Relation
- Developing Sport for Women and Girls p. 19-31
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Emma Sherry and Katie Rowe
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