Sport England’s 2018 Active Lives Children and Young People Survey looked at children ages 5-16 and found boys are more likely than girls to be active every day: 20% for boys compared to 14 % for girls.Īlso, WSF and Project Play each concluded girls of color play sports less than white girls. In Canada, girls’ and women’s participation in sport has continued to decline for 20 years, and i f a girl has not played sports by the time she turns 10, there is only a 10% chance that she will be physically active as an adult, according to the 2016 report Women in Sport: Fuelling a Lifetime of Participation. It found that w hile only 30% of boys ages 15-17 decreased their participation in the past year, 46% of girls did. In Australia, 69% of boys between the ages of 11 and 17 play sports, while 55% of girls do, according to the 2019 Australian Youth and Confidence Research. Studies in other countries have found similar results. The report is part of the institute’s Project Play initiative.ĭuring the 2015-16 school year, 52% of boys participated in high school sports, and 44% of girls did, even though schools offered similar opportunities, the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) reported in its July 2019 report The State of High School Sports in America. Overall sports participation declined for the first time in 30 years.įor kids ages 6-12, the Aspen Institute’s State of Play report found 39% of boys played a sport on a regular basis in 2018, while 31% of girls did. In the U.S., about 4.5 million boys and 3.4 million girls participated in high school sports in 2018-19, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations’ High School Athletics Participation Survey. Research suggests the reasons include a lack of fun, cost barriers and cultural messages that tell girls in subtle and not-so-subtle ways that sports are for boys. So why are girls turning away from sports? However, half quit sports by the age of 17, according to Suncorp’s 2019 Australian Youth and Confidence Research.
Two-thirds of Australian teenage girls said playing sports makes them feel more confident. Girls often lack confidence - especially in their teen years. Research shows that girls are less likely to participate in sports than boys, and, if they do play, they are more likely to drop out.īut girls may need these benefits most.
Young people reap numerous benefits from participating in sports, including improved health and self-esteem, and when girls don’t play, they miss out.
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