How do female stereotypes impact health or performance in our sport?
What am I looking for?
Gender stereotypes (e.g., women as emotional, sensitive, weak) get in the way of taking female athletes’ health and injury concerns seriously.
Questions to consider:
What kinds of implicit beliefs about female athletes may be operating in our sport?
How would we describe the norms around reporting injury and illness concerns in our sport?
To what extent are female athletes trusted when it comes to identifying injury and illness?