
What girls and women in sports need to unlock their potential | Kate Ackerman
TED Health
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The Rise of the Female Athlete Clinic
Female athletes lag behind in terms of their participation in sport compared to boys. Sports actually doesn't only help with physical health and mental health, but it also helps propel girls into successful careers. 80% of female fortune 500s executives were athletes. 94% of the women in C-suites did sports. Between 2014 and 2020, when you look at the top sports exercise science journals, only 6% of the publication, 6% of articles, focused solely on women.
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