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

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...