A survey by This Girl Can and Studio You, which creates resources for PE teachers finds that, girls skip twice as many PE lessons as their male peers during any given school term.
Two in five girls said that they did not enjoy PE lessons and only attended because they had to.
Just under a third of girls felt these classes were “embarrassing” and “stressful”, while boys described them as “enjoyable”, “exciting” and “engaging”.
The main barriers girls encountered to enjoying PE lessons were their periods, with 45% of those asked saying they stopped them enjoying the classes, followed by the hassle of getting changed and feeling self-conscious.
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