How sports participation leads to long-term success for girls

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How sports participation leads to long-term success for ******

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The 2024 Paris Olympics mark the first

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in history, with equal numbers of men and women athletes. Audiences today are being exposed to the phenomenal accomplishments of women athletes more than ever before.

This year also saw the launch of the

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. Canada’s first professional women’s soccer league, the

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, is set to begin in 2025, and the WNBA

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that will begin play in 2026.

But despite these advancements, only

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are currently meeting established physical activity guidelines. In particular, sports participation has been declining in Canada over time and with age. As many as

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of any kind—a decline of at least 14% over the past decade.

Research suggests the inspiration from high-profile women athletes has not moved the needle. The well-established and wide-ranging benefits of sports participation for women and ****** have yet to overcome the systemic barriers to access in sports.

In its 2018 budget, the Government of Canada announced a target to achieve

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. The question ********: how do we ensure this target is reached? What changes are needed to re-position sports participation from a nicety to an imperative?

Our recent research set out to address this issue by examining how sports impact ******’ acquisition of knowledge, skills and capabilities in order to determine if sport enhances their socioeconomic value. In other words, we wanted to explore the long-term impact of ******’ sports participation on their

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development.

Sports and leadership

A staggering

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, according to an Ernst and Young report.

Similarly, Deloitte found

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. This statistic rises to 91% for women in leadership positions and 93% among women who make over $100,000 annually.

These numbers are powerful because they offer a tangible touch-point—****** who play sports often become women who lead.

It stands to reason that if women in the corporate sector are crediting sports for their success, women who are athletes in other labor sectors might also be leveraging the unique attributes they picked up playing sports.

To better understand this in a ********* context, we collected the socioeconomic measures of educational attainment, career trajectory and employment income for women

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graduates—the national sport governing body for universities in Canada—in 2011 and 2019. We did this to determine how sustained sports participation impacted their human capital development.

The impact of sport

We found that 58% of women varsity athletes pursued graduate level education, a rate nearly eight times higher than the

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Post-secondary education is a determinant of human capital. From 1970 to 2020, the

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to 70% from 30% of men’s human capital. The findings were more significant among women with graduate degrees, where women’s human capital was calculated to be as high as 84%.

This progress aligns with the policies that were put in place to increase gender equity in sports. This includes the 1982

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which prohibited discrimination based on ****, gender or ******* orientation and the

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, which was the federal government’s first attempt to create equal opportunities for women in sports.

Our study found that varsity athletes were pursuing careers with higher earning potential compared to the general public. A combined 75% of women varsity athletes were in careers that offered above-average earnings, increasing their economic value and overall human capital. This finding underscores the professional advantages of sustained sport participation.

Alongside

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that highlights the many physical and psychological benefits of sports engagement and the valuable life skills that are developed through sport, our study highlights the holistic human capital development that is fostered through varsity sports participation.

Sports participation is underrated

Our research highlights the long-term socioeconomic value of ******’ sports participation. This is powerful because it doesn’t just show what’s possible—it shows that ******’ sports participation is empowering human capital development.

By positioning sports as a catalyst for higher education, career advancement and income potential, our study suggests sports should be viewed as a strategic tool to accelerate gender equity. Removing access barriers to sport should become a top priority.

These new insights highlight the importance of sports participation in human capital development. In order to improve the knowledge, skills and capabilities ****** and women accumulate throughout their lives, Canada needs better funding models to improve ******’ participation and retention in sports.

Governmental policy needs to be developed to explicitly recognize the far-reaching benefits of sport and its critical role in ******’ long-term development. Extracurricular sports need to be resourced in schools to level the playing field. Enhanced funding structures that offer competitive scholarships at the varsity sport level are also recommended.

When we invest in strategies to keep ****** and women in sports, we invest in the socioeconomic future of women.

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