Authors: Stephanie E. Coen, Victoria Downie, Lucy Follett, Steve McCaig, Joanne L. Parsons Why is this study important? Women and girls remain at elevated risk of some sports injuries compared to their male counterparts, including anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture, concussion, and ankle sprain. Research into injury disparities has traditionally focused on sex-based biological explanations […]
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You have to work twice as hard as a woman to show that you are competent: Experiences, opportunities and workplace gender harassment for Sport and Exercise Medicine practitioners working in elite sport in Australia
For full study, click here! Why is this study important? The under-representation of women in sports leadership is a significant problem worldwide, that reflects gender inequity, enables gender harassment and discrimination and undermines the participation and aspiration of women and girls in the sports domain. Worldwide women sport and exercise medicine (SEM) physicians perceive significantly […]
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me?
By Orla Muldoon @orlamuldoon Remember that rhyme. The mantra of many childhoods, wheeled out to protect youthful fragility. But do names really ‘never hurt’? Is there really no physical cost to name calling, jeering and verbal abuse? At the start of September, I started to think about the cost of street harassment (jeering, heckling and the […]
The Eva Carneiro case and gender inequality in SEM: Why it matters for the SEM community
By Sheree Bekker @shereebekker and Tracy Blake @tracyablake “Women want to be leaders, we just put them off as we go along. I think in every program I have ever watched in my life the woman, the female doctor [unclear] is either hyper-sexualised…or she is not present….This is what young girls, what I, grew up with […]
Team doctors have authority over managers to make medical decisions #PlayerSafety1st
We’ve all caught wind of the recent media flurry after last Tuesday’s unreserved apology (and settlement) by Chelsea FC to former sports physician, Dr. Eva Carneiro (@EvaCarneiro). The team’s management were explicit that Dr Carneiro had acted completely appropriate when she ran on to the pitch to treat Eden Hazard in last August’s opening day […]