Women's soccer teams have been ditching white shorts as part of a growing trend aimed at tackling period anxiety in sport, and new research shows that women's teams who play in white perform worse.
Soccer Football - Women's World Cup Qualifier - Group D - England v Latvia - Keepmoat Stadium, Doncaster, Britain - November 30, 2021 England's Lauren Hemp celebrates scoring their eighth goal with teammates Action Images via Reuters/Molly Darlington/File PhotoApril 25 - Women's soccer teams have been ditching white shorts as part of a growing trend aimed at tackling period anxiety in sport, and new research shows that women's teams who play in white perform worse.
Krumer, whose peer-reviewed paper "On the cost of wearing white shorts in women's sport" was published recently in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, was curious about whether women's anxieties about leakage affected their performance. He found no difference in performance in men's teams wearing white.
"Anything that relieves the mental stress of the players is a good thing. If it's one less thing to worry about, then why not?" England defender Lucy Parker said when the change was announced, while team mate and forward Lauren Hemp called it a "massive step in the right direction". Nineteen of the 32 teams at last year's Women's World Cup played at least one match in white, Krumer said.
"And if you force them to play in white shorts, especially at the age of 14, 15, when they really care about what people will think ... that's a pity," Krumer said. "And it's taboo," he added. "People don't want to talk about it, but 50% of the population has it. What's the problem?
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