Affiliation:
1. Claire McKay Bowen is senior fellow and leads the Statistical Methods Group at the Urban Institute. She is also a member of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee and several other data governance and data privacy committees, an adjunct professor at Stonehill College and a member of the Significance editorial board. In 2021 she was named an emerging leader in statistics by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. She is a keen participant in endurance sports
Abstract
Abstract
In a break with tradition, the culminating event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be the women’s marathon, not the men’s. Women have come a long way over the last century in being able to participate – and smash records – in endurance sports such as marathons, ultra-marathons, long-distance cycling and swimming, and triathlons. Claire McKay Bowen explores what has helped, and hindered, them along the way
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)