Traditional approaches to gender differences in athlete health, injury, and performance focus largely on biological factors at the individual level (e.g., menstrual cycle, anatomy, biomechanics).

A gendered environmental approach broadens the scope to include social and cultural factors surrounding the athlete (e.g., social norms, gender relations, inequities in resources).

What is the value added by this this approach?

Social and cultural factors are modifiable whereas not all biological factors are. This opens up new possibilities for supporting female athlete health and performance.