WSFF has prepared a number of factsheets using sport-specific and audience-specific research. Each factsheet covers the key findings relating to participation, gender, demographics, club membership, leaders and coaches and satisfaction.
In this factsheet, WSFF illustrates the benefits to sports bodies of working with women and girls....
Sport England have recently announced their intention to begin focussing on the problem of falling participation rates...
• 2.76 million women (12.8%) take part in regular sport every week, this is a non-significant increase since 2008-09
• Swimming, gym and athletics are...
NEW for 2011, this factsheet highlights the key findings for women's sports participation from the 2009-10 Active...
Angling participation overview
8,600 females take part in angling at least once every four weeks.
In comparison, 200,...
45% of female archers are 35-54 years of age. Participants are more likely to be from high income households.
Archery participation overview
This year around 19,500 women took part in archery at least once every four weeks – a...
Around 0.74 million women take part in athletics at least once a week.
Between 2008-09 and 2009-10 there was no significant change in women’s participation in...
Athletics participation overview
Athletics is the 3rd most popular activity for women behind swimming and going to...
The greatest disparity between men and women in badminton occurs at ‘middle youth’ where 30-34 year old men are almost three times more likely to play the...
Badminton participation overview
Badminton is the 7th most popular sport for female participation - around 200,500...
In this fact sheet we explore the range of practical, personal and social and cultural barriers that prevent...
More than twice as many men as women play baseball/softball.
Baseball and softball participation overview
0.07% of women (around 15,100) play baseball/softball at least once every...
Basketball participation overview
Basketball is currently the 17th most popular sport for women, but the 4th most...
Men are more likely to bowl than women, with the biggest difference at age 75-84 with almost twice the proportion of men as women taking part.
Less than 1% of...
Bowls participation overview
Around 153,100 women take part in bowls at least once every four weeks.
Bowls is...
Participation has fluctuated over the past few years although figures are not significant enough to establish any trend.
Boxing remains a predominantly male...
Boxing participation overview
19,400 women box at least once a week.
There has been a significant decline in female participation between 2008-09 and 2009-10, however this was after a year of massive growth, so the true trend is...
Canoeing and kayaking participation overview
Around 12,900 women canoe/kayak at least once a week.
Men are three times...
Coaching female high performance athletes
There is evidence to suggest coaching is still delivered in a way that assumes gender neutrality; ie female and male...
Introduction
This factsheet is one of a series, produced by WSFF and sports coach UK aimed at coaches who coach...
Coaching myth buster
If something is said enough times, it starts to become ‘fact’. When it comes to coaching female sport, much of these facts are often based...
Introduction
This factsheet is one of a series, produced by WSFF and sports coach UK aimed at coaches who coach...
Female participation is considerably lower than men – just one in ten weekly players is female.
Cricket participation overview
36,700 women play cricket at least once every four weeks, with 15,100 of them playing at...
Cycling is the second highest in demand sport among women: 416,000 women want to do more.
Cycling participation overview
Recreational cycling is the 5th most popular activity that women take part in at least...
Developing female coaches
This factsheet focuses on the reasons for the under-representation of women in coaching and steps governing bodies of sport,...
Introduction
This factsheet is one of a series, produced by WSFF and sports coach UK aimed at coaches who coach...
Monitoring is recommended to eliminate all forms of discrimination whether intentional or unintentional. As well as...
Almost seven times as many women as men take part in equestrian activities
Equestrian participation overview
Equestrian is the 5th most popular activity for women and one of just seven...
Exercise, Movement and Dance participation overview
EM&D is the 4th most popular activity for women. Over a...
Female Physiology and considerations for coaching practice
All people are individuals and it is for you, the coach, to contextualise the following information...
Introduction
This factsheet is one of a series, produced by WSFF and sports coach UK aimed at coaches who coach women...
Female psychology and considerations for coaching practice
This factsheet aims to provide some of the evidence on differences in how men and women think to...
Introduction
This factsheet is one of a series, produced by WSFF and sports coach UK aimed at coaches who coach...
Fencing is the 34th most popular participation sport for women, behind archery and shooting
Fencing participation overview
Around 6,400 women took part in fencing at least once a month in 2008-09, a significant...
Football participation overview
Football is the most popular team sport for women and is in the top ten across...
In addition to a lot of committment and an innovative approach, getting more women and girls to participate in sport...
Golf participation overview
Around 0.12 million women play golf at least once a week.
While golf is the 11th most...
The number of female participants has considerably declined over the past few years. Weekly participation has remained stable in the last year, but monthly...
Gymnastics and trampolining participation overview
Around 34,500 women take part in gymnastics at least once a week....
Hockey is most popular among women in the South West and South East. London has the lowest hockey levels – as is the case for most sports.
Hockey participation overview
Hockey is the 3rd most popular team sport amongst females, and the 14th most popular...
This factsheet outlines how and why sports should gender impact assess their strategies. Exploring how the process can...
Each sports club is unique, that’s part of the beauty of sport. Each team or club has its own history, its own...
There is no one-size fits all approach to the perfect NGB for women and girls. Each sport is different, each governing...
WSFF is often asked ‘what are the health benefits of girls and women taking part sport and exercise?’ And we say –...
Judo is a young woman’s sport – three times as many 16 to 34 year olds as 35 to 54 year olds take part
Judo participation overview
While judo has a relatively small numbers of women taking part (4,590), those who do are...
There has been no significant change in women’s monthly participation in lacrosse since 2008-09.
Lacrosse participation overview
Around 8,600 women play lacrosse at least once a week, making it the 28th most popular...
This guide has been designed to help you identify key steps and tools in planning a successful marketing campaign to...
Rock climbing is the most popular ‘mountaineering activity’ for women and men.
Mountaineering participation overview
Mountaineering is the 18th most popular sport for female participation, with...
The world of sport is male dominated and women often come up against considerable challenges. In this fact sheet we...
Around 140,100 women play netball at least once a week, rising to almost 200,000 on a monthly basis.
There has been a significant increase in the number of...
Netball participation overview
Netball is the second most popular team sport amongst female participants.
The sport...
Weekly rounders participation has fluctuated very slightly over the past three years so it is hard to predict a trend.
Rounders participation overview
Rounders is the 20th most popular activity for women and the 5th most popular team...
Rowing is most popular among 16-19 year-olds and they make up 29% of all rowers.
The profile of female rowers is much younger than women who take part...
Rowing participation overview
19,400 women row at least once a week, making rowing the 21st most popular...
Over 86% of female Rugby League players are aged between 16 and 34, which is the 2nd highest proportion of 16-34 year-old women among all sports.
This is due...
Rugby league participation overview
Rugby League is the 34th most popular monthly activity amongst women, with around 8...
Men outnumber female rugby union players 29:1. This is a larger difference than seen in 2008-09.
Rugby union has seen a decline in female participation over...
Rugby Union participation overview
8,600 women play rugby union at least once every four weeks, with 6,500 playing at...
Sailing is more popular with men than women; however participation in sailing does appear to be declining.
45,300 women sail every at least once every...
Sailing participation overview
Sailing is the 22nd most popular female activity, ahead of canoeing and kayaking, with...
The sport has one of the largest gender differences of all Sport England funded sports – there is one woman for every ten men.
Shooting participation overview
12,900 women take part in shooting at least once every four weeks, making it the 30th...
Female participation in skiing and snowboarding has fluctuated over the last few years.
Skiing and snowboarding has one of the most equal gender ratios...
Skiing participation overview
Skiing is the 13th most popular participation sport for women.
Four in five female skiers...
Socially inclusive coaching
It is increasingly recognised that key social and cultural barriers influence women’s and girls’ participation in sport and...
Introduction
This factsheet is one of a series, produced by WSFF and sports coach UK aimed at coaches who coach women...
This factsheet provides a succinct overview of issues relating to women’s sport and participant stereotyping on the...
The concept and practice of equity is fundamental in sport, and needs to underpin all thinking in the sports sector....
Unlike other racquet sports, which have relatively even gender splits, squash has five times as many male players as female players who play squash at least...
Squash and racquetball participation overview
Squash is played by around 38,800 women at least once a week and is the...
There has been a significant decrease in female participation in swimming over the past three years – approx. 2.14 million women swam at least once a week in...
Swimming participation overview
Swimming is the most popular sport for female participation.
There are 0.8 million more...
Table tennis is more popular with men than women: more than twice as many play.
Table tennis participation overview
Table tennis is the 19th most popular physical activity and the 4th most popular...
There has been no significant change in female participation in taekwondo participation in the last year.
Looking back over the past three years female...
Taekwondo participation overview
Around 10,800 women take part in taekwondo at least once a week, making it the 27th...
This factsheet explains the reasons why teenagers drop out of sport, and provides solutions for NGBs, clubs and coaches...
Around 181,100 women play tennis at least once a week however, female participation appears to be declining.
Tennis participation overview
Tennis is the 8th most popular sport for female participation.
Over half of female...
This factsheet will assist coaches and clubs in developing the player pathway for women in their sport.
We need to...
This factsheet presents the headlind findings about female participation from the latest Active People Survey.
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Women make up 30% of all volleyball members, which makes it one of the most equally balanced gender profiles of all sport.
Volleyball participation overview
Volleyball is the 26th most popular physical activity.
Around 23,700 women play...
Waterskiing participation overview
Around 6,900 women took part in water-skiing at least once every four weeks, making...
There has been a significant decline over the last year in the number of women taking part in weightlifting each week.
Monthly participation has also...
Weightlifting participation overview
Weightlifting is the 29th most popular participation sport for women.
Around...
In September 2009 WSFF delivered a workshop at the annual BUCS conference. This factsheet captures some of the key...
WSFF believe that the IOC should achieve gender parity in number of medals available, and the total number of athletes...
This fact sheet is provides a starting point for those looking to develop their own projects aimed at getting more...
Just a quarter of girls meet current recommended levels of physical activity a week
Female drop off in sport starts earlier than males’ and is also more...
This factsheet summarises the recent key findings on young women and girls' physical activity.
It brings together...
