ICOACHGIRLS Guide 3 - Women in Coaching: Removing Barriers to Start and Stay

Research shows that women and girls face multiple challenges to participate in sport and physical activity. For example, the gendered nature of sport, a lack of female role models and unequal provision all hinder girls’ ability to participate. Girls in the EU across a broad range of sports and countries, are four times less likely than boys to engage in organised sport (Emmonds et al., 2021). By not participating, girls are missing out in all the potential physical, mental, social and professional benefits of regular physical activity. Importantly, early negative experiences of sport, physical education and physical activity during the primary school years contribute to girls’ lower levels of activity.
ICOACHGIRLS (ICG) is an Erasmus+ funded project, which is part of the larger ICOACHKIDS (ICK) family. ICOACHGIRLS has two key objectives:
1) To increase physical activity and sport participation among primary school age girls
2) To increase the number, competence and confidence of female coaches.

https://icoachkids.org/learn/girls/icoachgirls