Gender balance is needed when it comes to physical education

Schools need to employ different strategies to get more girls involved in physical education classes, writes Helen O’Callaghan.

LAURYN GROOME used to feel self-conscious in Physical Education (PE) class. So did her friends.

“Everyone would sit with their friend and if they weren’t doing PE you wouldn’t either. You’d only go into a game with your friends. There were girls who had different body shapes — you’d think ‘oh, I’m not like her, I don’t want to do PE’.”