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Makes sense, can you give some examples of sports that women outperform men by a significant margin?

• defrost 2y ago
  Not a sport, but the occupation of free diving to gather food, pearls, etc. was dominated by women who physically performed better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haenyeo Because so many families relied on the haenyeo for the majority of their income, a semi-matriarchal society developed on Jeju with the haenyeo at the head of the household. On the tiny islets off the coast of Jeju, such as Mara Island, where sea-diving was the sole source of income, this reversal of traditional gender roles was fully realized; men would look after the children and go shopping while the women would bring in money for the family. and: https://strangersguide.com/articles/haenyeo-divers/ https://strangersguide.com/articles/haenyeo-divers/ for generations, haenyeo—or sea women—have supported men and children by free-diving to the ocean floor, harvesting such prized sea creatures as conches, abalones and sea cucumbers to supply the local economy. When Jeju men were called out to other seas or lands to fight wars, or languished in prison, the haenyeos of Jeju Island found an opportunity near home, off the choppy waters of the island’s coast. Haenyeo women went under water more than 100 times a day, as low as 65 feet under, grabbing precious sea treasures with their bare hands, trading them for money that would be used to feed and clothe their families, pay for their children’s college education and pay off the steep taxes and fishery fees formerly imposed by the Japanese colonial government.