We need to talk about manels: the problem of implicit gender bias in sport and exercise medicine

Sheree Bekker; Osman H Ahmed; Ummukulthoum Bakare; Tracy A Blake; Alison M Brooks; Todd E Davenport; Luciana De Michelis Mendonça; Lauren V Fortington; Michael Himawan; Joanne L Kemp; Karen Litzy; Roland F Loh; James MacDonald; Carly D McKay; Andrea B Mosler; Margo Mountjoy; Ann Pederson; Melanie I Stefan; Emma Stokes; Amy J Vassallo; Jackie L Whittaker

doi:10.1136/bjsports-2018-099084

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We need to talk about manels: the problem of implicit gender bias in sport and exercise medicine

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Sheree Bekker Unaffiliated, South Africa PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Osman H Ahmed Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK The FA Centre for Disability Football Research, The Football Association, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ummukulthoum Bakare Physiotherapy Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Medical and Scientific Commission, Nigeria Olympic Committee, Lagos, Nigeria PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Tracy A Blake Department of Physiotherapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Canadian Sport Institute Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Alison M Brooks University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Todd E Davenport Department of Physical Therapy, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Luciana De Michelis Mendonça Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Diamantina, Brazil PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Lauren V Fortington Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP), Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael Himawan Unaffiliated, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Joanne L Kemp La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Karen Litzy Unaffiliated, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Roland F Loh Kingston University London, London, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
James MacDonald Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Carly D McKay Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Andrea B Mosler La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Margo Mountjoy McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Ann Pederson BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Melanie I Stefan Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK ZJU-UoE Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Emma Stokes World Confederation for Physical Therapy, London, UK Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Amy J Vassallo University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Franklin Women, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jackie L Whittaker University of Alberta and Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Sheree Bekker; shereebekker{at}gmail.com

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Bekker S, Ahmed OH, Bakare U, et al

We need to talk about manels: the problem of implicit gender bias in sport and exercise medicine

British Journal of Sports Medicine 2018;52:1287-1289.

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Accepted February 5, 2018
First published March 17, 2018.

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October 11, 2022

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