The overall and subgroup analyses overlapped much in terms of the significant moderators. Therefore, this part of the discussion will proceed as a function of specific moderators, starting with task as it was only possible to examine it in the overall analysis, then proceeding to those that emerged most frequently and moving on to those that were unique to a specific subgroup of tasks. Task as a moderator Gender inequality is found in varying degrees in most societies around the world, and the United States is no exception. Just as racial/ethnic stereotyping and prejudice underlie racial/ethnic inequality (see Chapter 7 “Deviance, Crime, and Social Control”), so do stereotypes and false beliefs underlie gender inequality. Although these stereotypes and beliefs have weakened considerably since the 1970s thanks in large part to the contemporary women’s movement and the gay and lesbian rights movements, they obviously persist and hamper efforts to achieve full gender equality. Higher volume of red blood cells equals higher athletic performance. Dr Bruce says: “In any running event of upwards of 5K where there is aerobic exercise associated with longer-distance events, haemoglobin levels are important.” Fat and muscle composition As an additional source of information, the most recently developed approach to an examination of the publication bias also was considered. Specifically, Ioannidis and Trikalinos ( 2007) proposed a test based on the rationale that a publication bias in a set of effect sizes should produce an excess of observed positive findings when compared to what is expected from the power of individual studies. As a conservative measure, Ioannidis and Trikalinos recommended use of 0.10 as the significance level for such test to reduce the risk of Type II errors. Hayward, E.N. (2014). Places and objects within a virtual environment: An ecological investigation of spatial memory (Unpublished undergraduate thesis). University of Winnipeg: Manitoba, Canada.

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This combination of power and strength is part of why men have an advantage in short and middle distance running events. What many readers might view as the most obvious limitation is our shift in literature search strategy as we included sex or gender as search terms to maximize ready accessibility to data. However, it is important to remember that we were compelled to use this limited search strategy as the literature retrieved from a broader search generally did not report data separately by sex and often did not even mention whether males and females were tested. Obviously, a large majority of researchers interested in the study of visual-spatial working memory overlook sex of participants in their design. Hopefully, the present findings will make them reconsider this view.Hyde, J. S. (2014). Gender similarities and differences. Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 373–398. doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115057 However, experts are unclear whether having grown up as a male for several years (and having enjoyed a full complement of testosterone during puberty) conveys a lingering advantage on athletes who now wish to compete with women. Long-term studies are still needed. Cardiorespiratory (lung capacity and cardiac output)

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The male sporting advantage is rooted in biology. Males have bigger muscles than females. With no need to accommodate childbirth, their skeletons are better adapted for running. They are taller, have denser bones, bigger hearts and higher levels of haemoglobin, the molecule which shuttles oxygen around the body. Those advantages stem from male puberty, during which levels of testosterone—the main male sex hormone and the original anabolic steroid—rise sharply. With the importance of testosterone in mind, the International Olympic Committee ruled in 2015 that trans women would be allowed to compete in women’s events provided that they took drugs to suppress their testosterone levels for at least a year before the competition. The hope was that would remove the male advantage, allowing trans women to compete in their preferred category while keeping things fair for the biological females against whom they would be competing. As a simple way to examine the potential influence of the file-drawer problem on our results, we compared the mean estimated effect sizes for samples obtained from published ( k = 88 samples) and unpublished research ( k = 10 samples). This analysis showed no significant influence of publication status: χ 2 (1) = 0.001, p> 0.5. This suggests no evidence of a publication bias in the present sample. Feingold, A. (1988). Cognitive gender differences are disappearing. American Psychologist, 43, 95–103. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.43.2.95 Increase mentorship and other efforts to boost the number of women in traditionally male occupations and in positions of political leadership.Hox, J. J., & de Leuw, E. D. (2003). Multilevel models for meta-analysis. In S. P. Reise & N. Duan (Eds.), Multilevel modeling: Methodological advances, issues, and applications (pp. 90–111). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.