2025: Empowering the Future through Education, Diversity, and Hope

Normalizing Period in Women’s Sports

Location

Hemmingson Ballroom

Start Date

15-4-2025 12:40 PM

End Date

15-4-2025 1:40 PM

Description

This poster reports the findings of female dropout rate in sports as it relates to periods and uniforms. Nuffield Health published a study in 2023 revealing that an alarming 84% of girls quit sports after their first period. It's mainly due to the stigma around periods. Young female athletes should be focusing on their sport and not the fear of menstruation that society has created. Society’s negative perception of periods diminishes the dignity of women. It is especially detrimental to athletes because at every level they are performing on a local or world stage with people scrutinizing their every move. It is important that women feel empowered as they play through their period versus demoralized by society. For this change to happen we need to work as a society to normalize periods and make them as common as a nose bleed. We want to inform coaches, athletic trainers, mentors, as well as the athletes themselves about menstrual cycle issues that are being faced throughout sports and bring more awareness among these groups. The goal of this poster is to educate and destigmatize periods as well as help girls and women feel more confident in their sport as they play through periods.

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Poster Session B

Publication Date

2025

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Apr 15th, 12:40 PM Apr 15th, 1:40 PM

Normalizing Period in Women’s Sports

Hemmingson Ballroom

This poster reports the findings of female dropout rate in sports as it relates to periods and uniforms. Nuffield Health published a study in 2023 revealing that an alarming 84% of girls quit sports after their first period. It's mainly due to the stigma around periods. Young female athletes should be focusing on their sport and not the fear of menstruation that society has created. Society’s negative perception of periods diminishes the dignity of women. It is especially detrimental to athletes because at every level they are performing on a local or world stage with people scrutinizing their every move. It is important that women feel empowered as they play through their period versus demoralized by society. For this change to happen we need to work as a society to normalize periods and make them as common as a nose bleed. We want to inform coaches, athletic trainers, mentors, as well as the athletes themselves about menstrual cycle issues that are being faced throughout sports and bring more awareness among these groups. The goal of this poster is to educate and destigmatize periods as well as help girls and women feel more confident in their sport as they play through periods.