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Girls play sport
Tag	Description
020	$a9781761068751
082	$aSOCIAL SCIENCE/ 362 DAL
100	$aDalton, Chloe
245	$aGirls play sport
246	$aGirls don't play sport
260	$aSydney, NSW:$bAllen & Unwin,$c2023.
300	$a228 pages,$c23cm.
520	$a"When Chloe Dalton was eight years old, she would kick a rugby ball around the field during the half-time break of her brothers' games. People noticed she was a handy kick, but when they told her she should join a team, she replied matter-of-factly, 'Girls don't play rugby.' Sixteen years later, Chloe Dalton won Olympic gold playing rugby 7s for Australia and she is now a fixture in the AFLW. In 2020, she started her own news platform, The Female Athlete Project, to correct the lack of media coverage of women's sport. She was surrounded by women achieving incredible things, so why weren't people hearing about them? The answer, it turned out, was complicated. Chloe was constantly fed the false narrative that women don't get paid much because female sport isn't as good as the men's equivalent, so nobody wants to watch it, therefore advertisers won't invest in it. This book shines a light on the interwoven quagmires of respect, opportunity, representation and pay that continue to stall the progress of women's teams around the world."
650	$aRugby players$vWomen.
650	$aWomen$vIn sport.
650	$aRepresentation$vIn sport.