Keeping Score: Girls' Participation in High School Athletics in Massachusetts

Keeping Score, a joint project of the National Women's Law Center and the Harvard School of Public Health, explores the persistent discrimination that girls in Massachusetts high schools face in sports participation opportunities and treatment of their teams. The Reports & Toolkits finds that girls in Massachusetts consistently lag behind boys in their participation in physical activity, depriving them of the health, social and emotional benefits of playing sports, and that girls of color fare even worse. Keeping Score calls for strengthened enforcement of federal and state gender discrimination laws; assistance to schools to enable them to achieve gender equity public education about the importance of sports participation; and partnerships between public health professionals and gender equity advocates to address barriers and promote girls' participation in physical activity.

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KeepingScoreGirlsHSAthleticsInMA2004.pdf