This week on Women’s Equality Day, adidas – a global leader in sport performance – announces its commitment to changing the future for NYC’s young female athletes.
Unveiling research that shows that less than 1 in 3 girls continue to play sport after school, adidas kicks off Here to Create Change, which commits to breaking down the barriers that see nearly 1.7 million3 potential female athletes quit playing in NYC alone.
Currently, girls of NYC are dropping out of sport at 2.4x the rate of boys. The drop off is significant. During middle school there is only a 5% gap between the percentage of male and female athletes, which rises to 13% in high school, with the biggest decline between the ages of 17 and 18. At today’s rate, girls are 1.5x less likely to play sport than boys, and by the age of 19 only 29% of girls (versus 56% of boys) will play any sport at all.
Unveiling research that shows that less than 1 in 3 girls continue to play sport after school, adidas kicks off Here to Create Change, which commits to breaking down the barriers that see nearly 1.7 million3 potential female athletes quit playing in NYC alone.
Currently, girls of NYC are dropping out of sport at 2.4x the rate of boys. The drop off is significant. During middle school there is only a 5% gap between the percentage of male and female athletes, which rises to 13% in high school, with the biggest decline between the ages of 17 and 18. At today’s rate, girls are 1.5x less likely to play sport than boys, and by the age of 19 only 29% of girls (versus 56% of boys) will play any sport at all.
- 8/28/2018
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