'Way behind': Female athletes are underrepresented in sports science research, writes USA TODAY Sports' Nancy Armour.
Half a century after the passage of Title IX, female students and athletes still struggle to achieve equality in important ways.Many of the impacts Title IX has had on women are well-known, visible throughout society.
Brain health and memory, bone density, joint stability, hormone levels during and after menopause – there is the possibility that playing sports in their younger years has a role in how women age, but we don’t know because most scientific findings are based on studies of men. As the first generation of women to benefit from Title IX reaches its 50s and 60s, that research gap will have real implications.
A friend, Tara Galovski, was researching the link between traumatic brain injuries and domestic violence as director of the women’s health sciences division of the National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System. When Robert Stern, an expert in sports-related brain trauma at Boston University, told Akers he was trying to secure grant money for a new study that would specifically include female athletes and asked if she would help spread the word, Akers said yes.
And why, Akers wants to know, isn’t there more research into the many other issues that could affect former female athletes as they age?
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