距离2032年布里斯班奥运会不足六年，澳大利亚却面临女孩和女性大量退出有组织体育运动的现象。[1]根据2020年对维多利亚州29225名女性的跟踪研究，55%的4-14岁女孩在退出体育运动后再未返回，相比之下同龄男孩的这一比例不足一半。[1]更早的2016年研究表明，近三分之二的澳大利亚女孩在15岁前就已经停止参与体育。[1]
尽管澳大利亚在精英运动员培养方面成绩显著——在格拉斯哥英联邦运动会上创造纪录，获得171枚奖牌，其中70枚金牌，女运动员赢得超过一半奖牌——但社区和初级水平的女性体育支持仍显不足。[1]澳大利亚政府已为昆士兰州和全国投资71亿澳元用于场馆基础设施，[1]然而提升女孩体育参与率仍面临多重障碍。研究表明，女性运动员在网上受到的骚扰是男性的三倍，[1]这成为阻碍女性继续参与体育的因素之一。全球仅有5项研究提供了有意义的数据说明如何让女孩和女性继续参与体育，[1]表明这一领域亟需进一步深化研究和采取有效措施。
As the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games draw near, Australian girls and women are abandoning organised sports at alarming rates, particularly during the critical 14-15 age years.[1] A 2020 study tracking 29,225 females in Victoria found that 55 percent of girls aged 4-14 who quit sports never returned to participation, compared with less than half that rate among boys of the same age.[1] Earlier research from 2016 revealed that nearly two-thirds of Australian girls had withdrawn from sports before turning 15.[1]
The dropout crisis presents a stark contrast to Australia's elite athletic achievements. At the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, Australian female athletes won over half of the nation's record-breaking haul of 171 medals, including 70 gold medals.[1] Yet this success at the elite level masks deeper structural problems in community and grassroots women's sport. Despite the Australian government's substantial investment of A$7.1 billion in venue infrastructure across Queensland and the nation for the Olympics, systemic barriers to female participation remain unaddressed.[1] Research limitations compound the challenge: only five studies worldwide provide meaningful data on how to sustain girls' and women's involvement in sports.[1] Female athletes also face triple the online harassment experienced by their male counterparts, a factor that may contribute to their departure from organised competition.[1]
