Where Are the Women in Sports Science Research?

....Sims, now a senior research fellow at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, has become one of the leading voices pushing for greater consideration of sex and gender in sports science. She co-founded Osmo, a hydration company that formulates products customized for men and women. In 2016, she published Roar, a training and nutrition guide aimed at women.

“I didn’t think I would be sitting here in 2018 still talking about how we need to have this conversation,” Sims says. “Women are not little men. When you look specifically at our physiology and genetic profile, and when you adjust our training and nutrition to account for those factors, we get better performance outcomes.”....

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Bethany`s Notes: Although this is not specifically mental health related it does apply to how we treat men and women as athletes. Most of the research is based on men and how their bodies respond....does this apply to mental health as well?