Published earlier this month in the peer-reviewed journal Sport, Education and Society, the study, which looked at a range of ...
Girls quitting sport at 'alarming' rates due to clothing: UK research
New research showing gendered school sport uniforms play a “major role” in high drop-out rates of teenage girls in sport, has already broken boundaries to help remove rigid policies meaning skirts no longer need to be worn in women’s English domestic hockey matches.
English hockey star, Tess Howard, 24, is on a mission to change hockey internationally, enabling choice for athletes to wear shorts or skirts, but long term, she is keen to tackle the issue of gendered uniform across all sport.