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Girls Playground Summary: Imogene clark is the co founder of make space for girls, a u. K. Based charity that is tying to fix the issue of girls being edged out of public parks and play spaces. She explains how an experiment was done in the netherlands where only one half of their playground will be used for football. The other half is for activity that’s not football. And then what happened was, one day, when the class bell rang, the boys quickly evacuated the area. After all, it’s just where they’ve ended up because there’s nowhere else for them to go. Transcript: Speaker 1 And Speaker 4 then what happened was, one day, when the class bell rang, the boys quickly evacuated the area. And it was interesting to see that girls and started using thesar for a very short time to practise gymnastics, to go for cartwheels. And it was the only time that i could observe girls using a the space that boys ad useit in during the recess. That Speaker 1 just makes me feel so sadeyo Speaker 4 was really stare year. Speaker 1 So maybe the girls don’t want to be stuck out at the edges or under the stairs. After all, it’s just where they’ve ended up because there’s nowhere else for them to go. And this acceptance that the main area of the playground just isn’t for them, it starts early as Speaker 3 a rather brutal experiment. They decided to chop the playground in half and say where only half is going to be used for football. Speaker 1 The other half is for activity that’s not football. Imogene clark is the co founder of make space for girls, a u. K. Based charity that is tying to fix the issue of girls being edged out of public parks and play spaces. She is telling me about an experiment that was done in the netherlands. She Speaker 3 explaimes, it was very interesting to hear the different reactions.

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