Distance Running Is a Perfect Lab to Investigate Whether Men Are More Competitive Than Women

Distance Running Is a Perfect Lab to Investigate Whether Men Are More Competitive Than Women
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What are the psychological differences between women and men? What causes these differences, and are they shrinking over time?

The dominant viewheld by most scholars and policymakersis that sex differences are slight and can be rather easily altered. Whether this view is true or not has implications for policy, such as Title IX, the federal law that aims to provide men and women with equal access to educational opportunities, including athletic opportunities.

Robert Deaner
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