Dr. Laura Azzarito studied 60 14 and 15 year olds and their school sport activities and found that girls were less likely to participate in a school PE class/sport. She asked the children to keep video diaries that monitored their exercise and found that not only did girls exercise less but they also were less likely to include video of them participating in a contact sport.
This relations to cultural dimensions because culture has designated that girls are supposed to be more fragile while boys take part in more robust activities such as sports and exercise. Due to this part of culture girls have changed psychologically to believe that they are not supposed to take part in activities related to men even years after women became equal with men in many countries.
http://www.bps.org.uk/news/some-girls-not-comfortable-sport-and-pe
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