Women dont lycra sport_英文原版

 
lycra bike pants could be turning body conscious teenage girls away from sport.

the humble lycra bike pant could be a cause of teenage girls dropping out of sports.

a federal government report has recommended that clubs give teenage girls the option to wear looser fitting, comfortable clothes, to avoid them becoming body-conscious and abandoning organised sport.

a bipartisan report produced from a senate inquiry into women's participation in sport found that teenage girls are leaving amateur sports because of body image issues exacerbated by uniforms.
act senator kate lundy, who is deputy chair of the senate committee that produced the report, said sports should do a survey of their women participants to see whether their uniform policy was suitable.

"the main problem people expressed here was a risk of teenage girls being turned off sport because of the types of clothing they're required to wear,'' she said.

"it is a body image issue one one side, but by having a bit more flexibility with respect to uniforms, you can help support young women in improving their body image.

"if a girl is more comfortable playing in shorts and that will keep her in the sport, lets go with that.''

co-captain of the australian netball team liz ellis told the daily telegraph that while fitted body suits were good to play in because they keep players cool, young girls should play in whatever makes them comfortable.

"it would be great to see sports clubs look at their dress codes, for teenager girls, but especially for young women of the muslim faith. there's anecdotal evidence that one reason why young muslim women don't play sport is they've got to wear short skirts.

"anything to promote young women to stay in sport would be positive.''

the report also recommended that the australian government should provide grants of up to $3 million a year for three years to television stations to encourage them to show more women's sports.

senator lundy told parliament that the absence of women in sport on television was causing them to lag far behind their male counterparts in terms of earnings.

"this perennial problem has women's sport caught in a vicious cycle that sees a lack of media coverage mean less sponsorship which means less income which means less resources to invest in the product to promote better media coverage,'' she said.

sydney university's associate professor catharine lumby said it the traditional male focus for sports on television had led to women missing out.

"it is a bit of a vicious cycle, where historically there has been so much emphasis put on male professional sport, that there's been a failure to grow audiences for women's sport,'' she said.

"i don't think that's a natural state of affairs. it's a by-product of imbalance.

"the idea that male sports are more interesting is a legacy of discrimination.''

ms lumby, who is currently investigating the role of sport in the development of young australians, said while it was a shame government funding was required to given women's sports their rightful prominence, it would be welcome.

but netballer mrs ellis also said the sports needed to take some responsibility for getting themselves on television, and this meant looking at the flow of the game, and educating the public on the rules.

channel seven said it would be happy to consider any proposals, "but one must acknowledge that television is about viewers and delivering television that the majority of australians want to watch.''