{
  "abstract": "Female, woman and girl sport has never been more visible,1 with full gender parity reached for the first time at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and record attendances set at the 2025’s European football championships and Rugby World Cup. Participation is surging from youth to senior levels, professionalism is accelerating and global audiences are catching up. Yet, as the fields, courts, pools and stadiums fill, female/woman/girl athletes remain chronically under-represented in the scientific evidence underpinning injury prevention. Across the more than 650 studies synthesised in the Female, woman and girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) consensus,2–7 fewer than 40% included female/woman/girl-specific data, and most failed to disaggregate female/woman/girl data from male/man/boy data. Also limited were data on female/woman/girl-specific injuries (eg, breast injuries) and considerations (eg, menstrual cycle, pregnancy-related and menopause experiences). These omissions result in a vicious cycle; under-representation limits understanding, which limits understanding evidence gaps, which limits justification and opportunities for funding, which perpetuates under-representation—ultimately undermining the health of female/woman/girl athletes.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada",
        "Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada",
        "Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Jackie L Whittaker"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Carolyn Emery"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Center for Muscle and Joint health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark",
        "Department of Sports Medicine, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway"
      ],
      "name": "Merete Møller"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Family Medicine, McMaster University Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada",
        "Games Group, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Margo Mountjoy"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Edinburgh Sports Medicine Research Centre, Institute for Sport, PE and Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK",
        "UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Debbie Palmer"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada",
        "Arthritis Research Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Jenna M Schulz"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "La Trobe University - Bundoora Campus, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Kay M Crossley"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Road to FAIR: where are all the female, woman and girl athletes?",
  "uid": "e5d0a493-603c-5eea-b6bc-4ac71fb24bc6"
}