Defending champion Adams, Lisa Whiteside, Natasha Jonas and Savannah Marshall will represent GB Boxing in the event.
Many voiced disapproval at the prospect of women getting into an Olympic boxing ring when the decision to include the sport was made in 2009, but the heroic scenes of Adams winning gold has changed many opinions.
Sport England figures show that before last summer’s Games, where women’s boxing was included for the first time, there were 19,600 females boxing once a week, compared with 35,100 now – an increase of 79%.
Women’s boxing is one of only a handful of sports that have enjoyed participation increases after the Games, according to the latest results from Sport England’s Active Peoples Survey.
Jonas told BBC Sport: “People’s perceptions of women’s boxing have changed. The fact that women’s boxing was on the telly, everyone could see it and the skill involved, and the determination of Nicola and the rest of the team – people were looking at it like ‘yeah, I want to do that’.
“We’ve got a lot more younger females participating in the sport and just having a go at the training. That’s what the Olympics were all about.”