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AI is perpetuating unrealistic body ideals, objectification and a lack of diversity—especially for athletes

What does it look like to have an "athletic body?" What does artificial intelligence think it looks like to have one?

Body shaming increases risk of injury for female athletes, IOC says

Sports injuries among female athletes can be reduced by creating a safe, supportive environment for training and competition, ...
Jezebel

Women’s Bodies May Actually Be Inherently Stronger—But Science Is Only Just Figuring It Out

It’s hardly radical to say that women’s bodies are inherently smaller and weaker than men’s bodies—but research compiled in Starre Vartan’s illuminating new book The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells ...
CNN

The hidden physical powers that help women outlive men

EDITOR’S NOTE: Starre Vartan is the author of “The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body,” which will be published on July 15. People who lived through the Irish ...

Women to play with smaller ball in top-tier Sevens

Top women's sevens players will use a smaller ball – known as a size 4.5 - as rugby extends a trial which adapts equipment to anatomical differences.
New Scientist

Finally wrangling with the complexity of female bodies benefits us all

Women aren’t just “little men”. And yet, it has long been convenient for medical science to act as if they are, focusing studies on male rodents and men because they lack the complicated hormone ...
The New York Times

U.S. Olympic Officials Bar Transgender Women From Women’s Competitions

The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee changed its eligibility rules on Monday to comply with President Trump’s executive order, taking the decision away from national governing bodies for each sport ...