“Alarming” Rate of Girls Quit Sport Due to Clothing Concerns

English domestic league team players no longer required to wear skirts, thanks to a new study led by Commonwealth Gold winning hockey star Tess Howard.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Sport, Education and Society, found that school sport uniforms are a "major role" in the high dropout rates of teenage girls in sport. It discovered that 70% of women across the UK, aged 18 and over, reported incidents of girls dropping sport at school due to clothing and related body image concerns.
The research is a simple solution: choice. Tess Howard is balancing her playing career with becoming a sports activist and is on a mission to change the face of hockey internationally, enabling choice for athletes to wear shorts or skorts. She aims to tackle the issue of gendered uniform across all sport. The gender play gap starts at age 5, and by age 14 only 10% of girls meet physical activity health standards.
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