Can you name any fields from the top of your head that have a) objective scoring b) no gender split rankings b) women in the top 10, consistently?
* Equestrian endurance racing: https://www.fei.org/endurance/rankings
* Long-distance sled-dog racing: https://iditarod.com/race/2023/
* NHRA drag racing: https://www.nhra.com/news/2023/final-2023-camping-world-drag...
* Crossword solving: https://crosswordtournament.com/2018/index.htm
* Dog agility: https://www.agilitynow.eu/results/agility-world-championship...
I read that the reason so many fields appear to be male-dominated is just that men have wider variance on almost anything you can measure, so outliers on any metric are more likely to be men.
https://www.fitnessfirst.com.au/get-there/new-study-finds-wo...
Still, when I ask Google to provide a list of top 10 ultra endurance runners in terms of absolute performance across sexes, it lists not a single woman and elaborates: "While female athletes like Courtney Dauwalter have occasionally won mid-tier ultramarathons outright over the entire field, in highly competitive, top-tier international events, the absolute raw times and physical performance indexes lean heavily toward the elite male field."
Why are changing the criteria?
Here are a list of race results you can look through.[0]
Look at the longest distance & time races such as the multi day one and females are "in the top 10, consistently", in overall results.
And thats with currently only about 20% of ultra endurance runners are female -- but growing. Apparently the science has female physiology as potentially superior for the longer distances (>195 miles) and studies[1] show that they are faster in amateur pace per mile at the greater distances