Questions for Discussion 3. About the Authors 4. Some Facts About Girls and Sports 5. Now in paperback, this is the first book to document how participating in sports changes young girls' lives during the difficult years of adolescence and early womanhood.
Strong girls make strong women, and athletics is an important part of that.
If you want your daughter to enjoy the health and confidence that come from playing sports, Raising Our Athletic Daughters is a must-read. Parents' personal history colors their approach to introducing their daughters to sports. More people tuned in to televised coverage of the Women's World Cup in Summer '99 than the NBA finals the same year, seemingly disproving the theory that there is no large-scale audience for televised female athletic events. The authors cite studies saying that 95 percent of national sports coverage focuses on male athletes. They say the trend has begun to shift in other venues.