Gendered uniforms lead to high dropout rates of teenage girls in sport: research
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#2While the result may still be true, this methodology seems quite useless to me.
The methodology included:
"In total, three-quarters of survey respondents replied ‘often’, ‘many’ and ‘sometimes’, when asked if participants ever saw girls stop playing sport because of sports kit or body image concerns."
Part of the study involved asking people whether they thought other people quit sports because of sports kit or body image concerns.
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#3As an example, take a look at the difference in attire between men’s and women’s volleyball and beach volleyball. Also men’s and women’s track.
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#5I totally believe this research I totally believe it
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#6While the result may still be true, this methodology seems quite useless to me. The methodology included: "In total, three-quarters of survey respondents replied ‘often’, ‘many’ and ‘sometimes’, when asked if participants ever saw girls stop playing sport because of sports kit or body image concerns." Part of the study involved asking people whether they thought other people quit sports because of sports kit or body…
* other people sometimes quit...
Re: Gendered uniforms lead to high dropout rates of teenage girls in sport: research
#7While the result may still be true, this methodology seems quite useless to me. The methodology included: "In total, three-quarters of survey respondents replied ‘often’, ‘many’ and ‘sometimes’, when asked if participants ever saw girls stop playing sport because of sports kit or body image concerns." Part of the study involved asking people whether they thought other people quit sports because of sports kit or body…
> This research used a mixed-methods approach, gaining both qualitative and quantitative data from an 18+ female-only online analytical survey gaining over 400 responses, followed-up with 8 semi-structured interviews with women aged 18–24. The choice of mixed-methods was first to gain the value of qualitative methods in attaining first-hand perspectives and multiple-truths. Secondly, gaining quantitative data were important to challenge the traditionally ‘uneasy’ relationship between feminist theory and quantitative social research (O’Leary, Citation1977). Cognisant of feminist researcher Williams’ (Citation2006, p. 456) view that ‘quantitative analysis is necessary if feminists are to intervene in important political debates’, I chose to involve quantitative data collection to aid the potential follow-up use of this study in policy design. This study implements feminist epistemological principles to support how I understand power, agency and the construction of knowledge, aligning with Rose’s (Citation1997) understanding that there is no single truth, only participants’ lived experiences. Further, a mixed-method approach encouraged the issue of school sport uniform to be explored through ‘a variety of lenses, which allows for multiple facets of the phenomenon to be revealed and understood’ (Baxter & Jack, Citation2008, p. 544).
> Engaging with feminist epistemologies during data collection, I was aware that research of gender in society is also a form of ‘doing gender’ (McDowell, Citation1992, p. 400), therefore there must be caution not to essentialise the ‘voice’ of women as a group or disregard intersectionality (Davis, Citation1994). Investigating uniform experiences with an intersectional lens of race, religion, gender reassignment and sexual orientation is vitally important, but the limitations in my data mean these intersections could not be sufficiently investigated within the scope of this paper. I accept even detailed accounts are always only ‘partial knowledge’ (Elwood, Citation2010), but appreciate feminist qualitative research is about using ‘small stories to tell larger narratives’ (Jackson, Citation2011, p. 56). Listening to a range of experiences, we can better understand a meta-narrative of how school sport uniform impacts behaviour, identity formation and creates barriers to physical activity.
> Guided by feminist epistemologies, as an interviewer I was conscious of power dynamics (Gluck & Patai, Citation1991), and cautious of any potential prompting of ‘correct’ or ‘dominant’ answers (Winchester & Rofe, Citation2010, p. 8). Brooks and Hesse-Biber (Citation2007, p. 14) indicate researcher emotions, subjectivities and situated knowledges cannot be ‘removed, bracketed or erased’, instead it is important to ‘reveal them’ (Brooks & Hesse-Biber, Citation2007). I acknowledge the influence of my experiences as a schoolgirl and now as a professional athlete, therefore avoid claiming a ‘false neutrality’ of knowledge (Rose, Citation1997, p. 306). Holding a reflexive feminist standpoint, I recognise how during this project I am also involved in a process of ‘self-discovery’ (England, Citation1994, p. 82).
It is surprising, and a bit sad, for me to see how much of research is now taken up by things that don't look at all like research. This is from the paper.
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#8This was a big issue for my wife and her sister when they played high-school volleyball in the 90s. My daughter, a middle schooler, at least has the flexibility to choose her short length. It matters for sure.
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#9Good research question, bad research.
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#10Something people don't consider is that studies often are cherry picked. Meaning if they don't got the result they want, they will discard the study and you will never hear about it. Drug studies can be fudged this way. They can do 100 studies, disregard 99, and report on the 1 that seemed most promising.
Academic fudging is real. I think something like half academic papers can't be reproduced. Imagine the low standards for this kind of research. And even lower standards for news articles.