Girls Don't Play Sport av Chloe Dalton

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<p>A timely and defiant manifesto unpacking the past, present and future of women''s sport, from the Olympic gold medal-winning founder of <i>The [Female] Athlete Project.</i><br><br>''A must-read''-Laura Henshaw<br><br>''A brilliant argument in favour of the case for women''s sport''-Liz Ellis<br><br>When Chloe Dalton was eight years old, she would practise her goal kicks in the half-time break of her brothers'' rugby matches, all the while telling impressed onlookers: ''Girls don''t play rugby.''<br><br>Sixteen years later, Chloe Dalton won Olympic gold playing rugby sevens for Australia and is now a fixture in the AFLW. In 2020, she started her own news platform, The [Female] Athlete Project, because while she was surrounded by women achieving incredible things in sport, nobody was hearing about them.<br><br>This book shines a light on the interlinked quagmires of respect, opportunity, representation and pay that continue to stall the progress of women''s teams around the world. <br