Up to Speed: Addressing Gender Bias in Sports Science with Christine Yu
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Christine is an award-winning journalist whose work focuses on the intersection of sports, science, and gender. She’s the author of Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes, a book that explores how sports science has overlooked female athletes, and why that needs to change. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, Outside, Runner’s World, and more. In this episode, we’ll be talking about gender gaps in research, its implications on performance and health, societal trends that impact the well-being of young athletes, and what we need to do to decrease gender bias in sports science.
Christine's website and Instagram: https://www.christinemyu.com @cyu888
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