How Playing High School Sports Secretly Predicts Career Success in Women

A new e.l.f. Beauty and Parity study of 9,000 women shows how youth sports build high-earning, leadership-minded careers.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

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You got game? If you do—or especially if you participated in sports earlier in life—chances are you’re now farther ahead in your job and career than you would have been if you’d remained on the sidelines. That professionally beneficial link is even stronger, meanwhile, among former women athletes now in the workforce, according to new study data.

While the positive influence of youth sports on careers later in life may seem intuitively logical, its importance was substantiated in survey results........

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