Birds eye view of a track starting line up
Young female fan high-fiving a female racer
Young female fan high-fiving a female racer

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Useful existing research on women in motorsport, women in sport and other areas where mixed gender challenges are explored.

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Women in Sport – Historical

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Women in Sport – Formal Research

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Arachtingi, Dorine. (2020) ‘Foster the Gender Equality in the context of horse-riding. An Olympic Value which reveals a path from domination to emancipation’. International Academic Journal on Olympic Studies, vol.4, pp. 60-74. Available at: http://diagorasjournal.com/index.php/diagoras/article/view/90

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Statistica Research Department. (2022) ‘Highest TV audience for women’s football events in the UK 2022’. [online] Statistica. Available at: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1323950/womens-football-tv-audience-uk

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Women in Business

FTSE. (2022) ‘FTSE Women Leaders Review: Achieving Gender Balance’. [online] FTSE. Available at: https://ftsewomenleaders.com//www/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2021_FTSE-Women-Leaders-Review_Final-Reportv1_WA.pdf

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Women in Motorsport

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Formula 1. (2022) ‘2022 Sustainability and Diversity and Inclusion Progress Report’. [online] Formula 1. Available at: https://corp.formula1.com/formula-1-2022-sustainability-and-diversity-inclusion-progress

Howe, Olivia R. (2022) ‘Hitting the barriers – Women in Formula 1 and W series racing’. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 29(3), pp.454-469. Available at: https://philpapers.org/rec/HOWHTB

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Key links

Useful existing research on women in motorsport, women in sport and other areas where mixed gender challenges are explored

Michigan State research on female drivers https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190404143745.html

University of Chichester on women in motorsport https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301277836_’What_on_Earth_are_They_Doing_in_a_Racing_Car’_Towards_an_Understanding_of_Women_in_Motorsport

Comparative study Women’s G tolerance https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3753357

Biomedical Research on Health and Performance of Military Women https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/jwh.2005.14.764

Women’s Service in the Israel Defence Forces research https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/israel-defense-forces#pid-18535

Nasa research into women’s health in space https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49744892

National Academy of Sciences research on men and women in space https://www.nasa.gov/content/men-women-spaceflight-adaptation

Changing attitudes towards female athletes,  Sport Journal https://thesportjournal.org/article/exposure-to-womens-sports-changing-attitudes-toward-female-athletes

Canadian study on women, sport and physicality https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1012690297032003006

University of Carolina research on women in sport https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/wspaj/wspaj-overview.xml?tab_body=about

UN Women: women and girls in sport https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/women-and-sport

Athlete assessment research https://www.athleteassessments.com/gender-equality-debate

Women and the Army Combat Fitness https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/army-fitness-test-women/2020/09/24/20ed51e2-e244-11ea-ade1-28daf1a5e919_story.html

Research by the US Army on women in military https://www.wired.com/2006/01/military-women-can-hack-it

International Journal of Public Health Effects of Mixed-Gender Competition https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9031995

University of Toronto research on the experiences of girl athletes playing on boys’ sports teams during adolescence https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2159676X.2023.2187444

Journal of Sports Economics:  Gender and Jockey Success on the Thoroughbred Racetrack https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1527002520975839

University of Liverpool: Female jockeys, what are the odds? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4040586

Altman Solon Survey into the changing commercial landscape in sport https://www.altmansolon.com/sports-and-news-survey

Sports Innovation Lab Project on how Women’s Sports will lead the future https://assets.ctfassets.net/40abn7j4v349/XWdrSeE0YWHefrzMlSVnq/277baf2fdcda326672da90a683538daa/SIL_The_Fan_Project_Report.pdf