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February 23, 2015 For Girls, Playing High-School Sports Has Long-Term Effects Engaging in high-school athletics has lasting effects for women, according to an analysis of the soaring increase in girls' sports participation after the 1972 passage of the U.S. Title IX anti-discrimination law. Each 10-percentage-point increase in female sports participation generated a 5- to 6-percentage-point rise in the rate of female "secularism" (having no religious affiliation) and a 6-percentage-point rise in the proportion of mothers who, at the time they were interviewed, were single. It's possible that sports participation instills confidence and encourages young women to reject tradition, say researchers Phoebe Clark and Ian Ayres of Yale Law School. SOURCE: The Chastain effect: Using Title IX to measure the causal effect of participating in high school sports on adult women's social lives

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