Nearly two-thirds of girls drop out of sport by the time they reach puberty – but teenager Issey Kyson is on a mission to change that. The 17-year-old athlete has spent the last few years balancing me

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Social media is awash with advice on training with your hormones in mind – and Lauren Colenso-Semple PhD has been paying close attention. Here, the researcher of female physiology reveals the reality behind the rhetoric

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Society is failing young boys in a variety of ways, placing even more pressure on parents to pick up the slack. As our writer – a mother of two girls – contemplates a third child, she weighs up whether she is up for the task of raising a boy in today’s world