Changing rooms with hairdryers and full-length mirrors would help to encourage women and girls to take up sport, a poll published today suggests.
More than half of those surveyed would take part in sport if they could style their hair afterwards. Fifty-six per cent of girls aged 10 to 15 said that hairdryers were essential, and 91 per cent cited private cubicles as a must-have.
The findings, by the Women?s Sport and Fitness Foundation, will be used to urge schools to upgrade changing facilities as part of a push to increase females? level of physical activity.
Less than 3 per cent of women play competitive team sports while those aged 16 to 24 are half as active as their male peers. Nearly a quarter said that PE classes at school put them off sport for life.
