What are the factors that contribute to the lack of participation in women’s sport?

During writing my EPQ I have had to cut down my work massively to stay within the word limit and try to just include the most significant points which seem most relevant to the question. During writing I had problems with the referencing so had to split the EPQ in two parts which I had to get help with from admin to put it back together on the same document with the references brought together too. During the research I have found articles as additional research that I have added in like the USA gymnast sexual abuse articles. I haven't had many problems when writing my EPQ and now I just have my conclusion to write and to check for any grammatical errors.

During my research I found pressure through media for girls an interseting topic as i thought it could link to the reasons why girls don't participate in sport. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/aug/22/girls-on-social-media-do-you-feel-pressure-to-be-perfect Girls on social media: do you feel pressure to be perfect?   The Guardian wanted to know what it was like being a girl growing up online. They wanted to know if girls feel pressure to look or act a certain way, so certain websites or social media platforms make them feel worse, features they feel should be removed and if they have received any nasty or negative comments towards them. They wanted to know if they felt pressure to be perfect and if they have ever turned to anyone for support.  "As a young girl, I do feel I need to be perfect and compare myself to others all the time. My sister is stunning, so I look at her and think: I need to look like her. It’s so negative. In reality, everyone is perfect just...

Factors which show men and women are becoming more equal in sport Factors which show men and women are becoming more equal in sport https://www.theguardian.com/sport/willstrop-s-world/2015/apr/30/equal-pay-attention-womens-sport-squash-tennis-football Popularity in women's football around the time of the first world war but it was then quashed by the board of directors. Women's football has been recovering from that "frightening bit of rhetoric". A century later and successful talented female athletes are acknowledged and they are watched. However, it has been a long process. Sport is no longer seen to have a dangerous effect on women and brilliant female athletes have become part of the sport culture. Frome Billie jean King and Beryl Burton to Steffi Graf to Jessica Ennis- Hill. Even now with a push after recent history, how female athletes recognition and financial compensation for women is varied depending on the sport. Th...

Report details widespread sexual abuse at USA Gymnastics facilities https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/dec/15/usa-gymnastics-sexual-abuse-report "At least 368 gymnasts have alleged sexual abuse over last 20 years" "Investigation alleges systematic failures that enabled predatory coaches" A nine month investigation which went into police files and court documents there was hundererds of cases found of alleged sexual abuse by 115 coaches and other adults they worked with. These systematic failures allowed coaches to relocate to other gyms. Nearly all the victims were girls. “It’s just too easy for coaches to keep getting hired and hired and hired. Sexual abuse thrives on the fact that people are embarrassed about the topic, ashamed to talk about it, and they keep quiet about it,” Nancy Hogshead-Makar, CEO of the advocacy group Champion Women and a former Olympic swimmer, told the Star. “And that’s exactly why molesting coaches keep getting hired at the ne...

No Increase in media coverage for women since London 2012 Olympics https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/mar/13/womens-sport-newspaper-coverage-birmingham-university Research done from Birmingham University revealed that six of the Nations newspapers produced fewer stories from women's sport a year from the Olympics than they ever did before. Men's stories about sport outnumbered women by 20 to one in March 2013. These newspapers were the Sun, Mirror, Times, Telegraph, Mail and Express.  '76 articles about sport in these newspapers during three weekends, 39 (4.5%), related to women's sport in February/March 2012, compared with 2.9% in 2013 – not statistically significant until you reflect that 97% of sport coverage a year after the Olympic games was of men's sport.' Dr Claire Packer, a senior clinical lecturer in public health, who led the study said: "Maybe it was unrealistic to expect the 2012 games to solve the gender bias in rep...

Sport England: Women playing sport reaches all-time high, figures show http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/38248042 The participation levels of women in sport on a regular basis in England has reached its highest point in all time of 7.1 million, research by Sport England shows. Active people survey found the number of females participants in sport has increased by 250,000 since the launch of This Girl Can campaign in 2014. Now the difference between the number of men and women playing sport has narrowed to 1.55 million. Sport England chief executive Jennie Price said: "These figures are really encouraging, especially the substantial increase in the number of women playing sport and being active every week" "Our This Girl Can campaign set out to tackle the gender gap, so to reduce it significantly in just two years shows we are making a difference." Sport England said going to the gym was "hugely popular" with 7.10 million going weekly, an increase ...