New Video: Gender Inequities in Sports and ACL Injury Risk
As the 2026 Winter Olympics kick off with projected record-setting representation of women athletes, the GenderSci Lab is excited to share a video explainer of how gendered social factors contribute to a higher risk of injury for women athletes.
Using animations and short interviews with GenderSci Lab researchers, the video unpacks our recent research paper in the British Journal of Sports Medicine demonstrating how factors related to the history of underinvestment in women's sport such as smaller team sizes and lower ratios of practice to competition time may drive observations of higher rates of ACL injuries in women athletes.
This short video is a useful resource for teachers and for sharing with diverse communities on social media.
For a written resource diving into the evidence, we invite you to read our explainer blog post.
Read the full article here: Ann Caroline Danielsen, Annika Gompers, Sheree Bekker, and Sarah S. Richardson. “Limitations of athlete-exposures as a construct for comparisons of injury rates by gender/sex: a narrative review”. British Journal of Sports Medicine 59, no.3 (2024)
SUGGESTED CITATION
Gompers, A., Danielsen, A., and Richardson, S.S. “New Video: Gender Inequities in Sports and ACL Injury Risk.” GenderSci Lab Blog. 3 February 2026. https://www.genderscilab.org/blog/gender-inequities-in-sports-and-acl-injury-risk.
STATEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL LABOR
This blog post was drafted by Annika Gompers, Ann Caroline Danielsen, and Sarah S. Richardson. Ann Caroline Danielsen, Annika Gompers, Sheree Bekker, Sarah S. Richardson, and Atlas Sanogo contributed to the creation of the video. This project was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.