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Girls Don't Play Sport

The Game-Changing, Defiant Rise of Women's Sport and Why It Matters

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Girls Don't Play Sport

By: Chloe Dalton
Narrated by: Jess Stanley
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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.'

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.

This audiobook 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.

Girls Don't Play Sport is a fierce manifesto advocating for female athletes at all levels. It explores how we got to this point and asks where we need to go next to embrace the untapped potential of women's sport.

©2023 Chloe Dalton (P)2024 Bolinda Publishing
Gender Studies Social Sciences Sports Sports History Women Rugby

Critic Reviews

'Captivating, empowering and relatable.' (Ellie Cole OAM, Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player)

'A brilliant argument in favour of the case for women's sport.' (Liz Ellis AO, Australian Netball champion)
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