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Literature Review on Women in Motorsports (Mike Stocz) · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  BreakFix's History of Motorsports series is brought to you in part
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  Society of Automotive Historians, the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of
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  Commerce, and the Argettsinger family.
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  A literature review on women in motorsport.
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  By Michael Stokes.
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  While men have taken the lion's share of media attention across
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  motorsport, there have been women who had gained substantial coverages.
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  From Britney Forrest to Hayley Deegan, women in motorsport
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  have hit sport headlines on various networks and modalities.
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  While coverage of women in motorsport may be more positive in terms of quantity and
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  perception, driver talent versus overt sexism, et cetera, Has academia had any
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  sort of focus on women in motorsport?
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  The purpose of the current literature review is to summarize the current
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  academic literature across two repositories, EBSCOhost and Google
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  Scholar, to gain a broader understanding of this academic realm of inquiry.
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  Various search terms, including women in racing and variants,
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  were included in the search.
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  Initial results suggest that women in motorsport are often a part of academic
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  research, but are less so the main focus.
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  Using the PRISMA methodology, articles were selected from relevant criteria
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  and reduced from a larger sample.
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  Methods and themes from articles will be discussed.
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  Mike Stokes is an Assistant Director for the Department of
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  Kinesiology and Senior Lecturer of Sport Management and Leadership at
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  the University of New Hampshire.
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  He is one of the founding members and Editor in Chief of the Journal
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  of Motorsport Culture and History.
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  Mike's recent works have included a co authored book chapter about the
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  future of Formula One, as well as work surrounding big game hunting
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  legislation on land preserves, an economic funding model for college
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  athletics, and critiques on K 12 coaching certifications surrounding sexual assault.
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  All right.
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  Good afternoon, everybody.
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  My name is Mike Stoats.
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  There's another name on there, so I definitely want to acknowledge him.
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  His name is Caleb McChesney.
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  He just recently graduated and helped me out with this project.
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  Earlier, during Lynn's keynote, there was kind of a paraphrased quote that
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  she said that I quickly wrote down because I thought, this is somewhat
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  related to how, up until this point, this research project has gone.
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  And the quote was there aren't enough women drivers to portray the depth within
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  the sport, which also kind of went on to mean, you know, the administrators and
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  such across the sport, but here and how it really comes into this presentation.
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  Is there's a lot more opportunity for not just historical research,
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  but academic research across various disciplines that really isn't
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  being harnessed at this point.
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  And I think throughout the rest of this presentation, you'll get an idea
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  of the opportunity that really exists.
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  So, kind of an introduction to this, a couple of years ago, Dan Simone mentioned
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  that he put on a panel on women in motor sports, and this is one of the ideas
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  that came from that, for me anyways.
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  There was another idea I had last year about women in motor sports podcasts.
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  After completing that, I thought, we need to take a step back and actually
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  analyze from an academic sense.
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  What is actually out there?
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  So some previous research to has suggested that motorsport, not just
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  NASCAR, but motorsport in general, is a male dominated, sometimes
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  referred to as a form of a fraternity type of situation and atmosphere.
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  Although, according to the Women in Motorsports North America organization, as
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  mentioned earlier, There are roughly over 400, 000 racers that are women across 250
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  sanctioning bodies, which host over 15, 000 motorsports events at 1, 200 tracks.
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  Layman's terms, there's a lot of interest.
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  There's a lot of participation that generally isn't being captured.
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  Moving more into the academic y side of things, what this research is effectively
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  about is using a systematic method for reviewing academic literature.
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  And here, academic literature is defined more as peer reviewed articles.
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  So, we can think if we were in college, sometimes a professor
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  would hand out this article from the Journal of Sport History or similar.
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  Those are the types of things that were included in this analysis.
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  It was not necessarily popular press articles.
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  Such as those you would see across various media entities, not
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  necessarily textbooks, nor books for recreation such as faster or similar.
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  So here we're talking about purely peer reviewed academic articles were the
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  only things that were included in this.
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  Mentioned before that this was a systematic review.
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  The term Prisma encapsulates the process for doing one of these systematic reviews.
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  It's a 27 step process that at 445 on a Friday we're not going to go through.
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  Just know that there were a lot of different steps to get down to the
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  final sample and then the actual review.
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  Where we got all of the academic articles from were two giant databases.
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  Maybe most of us haven't heard of either of these, but essentially think of
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  them as an internet repository for what you would find at a massive library.
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  The first one in particular, EBSCOhost.
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  EBSCOhost has a number of different databases, in which almost any topic
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  you can think of, there's probably some academic literature out there.
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  Gambling, horse racing, you name it, there's probably a database associated
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  and has academic literature therein.
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  And then we decided to use another one that was a little bit more public.
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  So most of us know what Google is.
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  Google has a scholar website.
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  Which is effectively a giant repository for academic articles.
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  So we figured, because previous literature reviews haven't looked at Google Scholar,
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  that let's take a look at them and compare them with the various EBSCOhost databases.
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  So when we're using these databases, we have to basically
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  tell them, what are we looking for?
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  First, like, indented some point are the general search terms
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  that we used for each database.
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  And we'll go over a little bit later how many results came up,
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  but as you can see, we're trying to encapsulate women in sport and women
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  in motorsport being the prime focus of the article in some form or fashions.
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  For this, there were a number of exclusions from our results list,
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  which included horse racing, drones, planes, boats, cycling, skiing,
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  foot racing, and baby formula, as it would relate to Formula One.
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  That was one we had to exclude.
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  For the eligibility status of the articles, they had to be complete,
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  obviously, and one of the languages shown on the screen, English or German.
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  I am NOT the German speaker in here.
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  That one went more towards my student.
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  For the selection of the articles, broadly speaking, we first looked
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  at the title of whatever the article was, as well as the abstract.
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  Think of the abstract, if you haven't done academic research or
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  haven't read one of these things in a while, as kind of the preview.
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  You open up that book, that first little sleeve that gives you a little
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  taster of what the book is about.
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  We can think of that as the abstract.
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  So those were the two at least first points that we would look at, followed
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  by a full manuscript review to ensure that the manuscript was mostly, in
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  quotes, mostly related to women in motorsports in some form or fashion.
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  We also had to come together on one or two articles where it was kind of iffy on
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  whether or not they should be included.
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  We did come to full consensus for.
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  Both of them.
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  So as I said, there are 27 steps, and these are three of them.
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  Once we got the general database results, so think of when you do a general
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  Google search for something, it'll say displaying 10 of blank amount of results.
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  Kind of a similar thing would come up.
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  The first round was a general screening, generally look, title, abstract, does
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  it include our search terms, or is it primarily about our search terms?
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  If yes, even vaguely yes, we would keep it around.
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  The second one was, we took all of the articles that got through the first
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  round, and did a little bit more of an independent deep dive on them.
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  At this point there were a couple of articles that For some reason,
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  it would come up blank, meaning there was no text available to them.
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  Or they would come up and not English or German, so we threw them out.
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  And then the third round was really compiling everything or
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  all of the manuscripts themselves into one form so we could dive
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  in and see what they were saying.
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  Like I said earlier, there was a lot of results, which is
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  why this took quite a while.
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  I should also mention that this is really phase one of this.
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  We're going to go back and do some other things that I'll
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  talk about a little bit later.
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  But the first bullet point is identification of the articles.
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  How many search results came up after we put in all of the
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  different search criteria?
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  Women in motorsports, women in NASCAR, women in Formula One, etc, etc. Of that,
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  within the generally academic private databases, about 600 results came forward.
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  Through Google Scholar, the public site, over 6 million.
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  Like I said, this took a while.
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  The next step was the screening step, in which We took all of
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  those and reduced them down to what could possibly be a winning
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  match for what we were looking for.
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  The next part, we looked at the full text articles and excluded those that, for
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  whatever reason, wouldn't make the cut, and finally ended up with a final sample
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  base for women in motorsport academic peer reviewed research articles of 12.
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  Starting with over six million, that number may seem a little bit low.
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  Across other forms of academic research, there are similar literature
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  reviews that have only nine articles.
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  This was actually somewhat of an encouraging sign for us.
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  Here's where the articles came up and the frequency of the year that they came up.
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  A lot of the Prisma related literature review searches
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  specify a general time frame.
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  We decided to keep ours very open and going back to 1950 until present.
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  A lot more of them are constrained.
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  Most of the results, as you can see, happened 2002 and later,
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  with a couple of years having two articles published in that year.
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  Where they ended up, they were Humanities Research, International Journal of Sport
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  History, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, International Journal of Sports
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  Marketing and Sponsorship, Professional Engineering, European Journal of
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  Women's Studies, Women's History Review, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School.
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  The German one.
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  We're just going to go with that.
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  I'm not going to butcher it.
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  Journal of Popular Culture, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise,
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  and Accident Analysis and Prevention.
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  Each of the journals really only had one.
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  Submission from here.
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  When we're talking about the different subjects that we see, one thing that
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  was surprising was we were able to find some exercise science based articles.
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  Generally, exercise science or kinesiology researchers will look at how
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  the body reacts to different exercise regiments or different stressors.
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  So, it was very nice to see that women were included in
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  some of these studies as well.
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  Some of my previous, I think actually every single time I've
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  presented here, I've included what's called results from Lexamancer.
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  What we did for all of the articles that made the cut was we did
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  something called a content analysis.
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  So we would go through and find themes from within each
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  of the articles and build.
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  Bigger, bigger, bigger themes.
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  Lexamancer is a computer program that does something similar,
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  just it being independent.
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  A lot of times, Lexamancer will throw out something weird, or call it
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  something weird, in which we kind of corrected it, made sure that it was
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  more related to what we wanted instead.
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  The main themes that came from Our sample base were gendered motor sports in which
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  Lexa Mansur came up with drivers, academic work environment, which Lexa Mansur came
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  up with article, research and development, as well as exertion in which the computer
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  came up with vehicle and stress, and exclusion in which the majority of the
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  results that Lexa Mansur came up with had the tag of women included in them.
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  For gendered motor sports, this theme was shown basically of women
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  navigating the motorsports world.
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  So for example, it is hypothesized that women's bodies in motorsport
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  are seen in three ways.
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  Beyond vehicles, navigating the space filled with other bodies
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  and their respective vehicles.
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  With vehicles, coordinating the technology of the vehicle itself.
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  And inside vehicles, which is operating in the space of the technology,
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  interacting with the technology, but situated by the gender's discursively
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  constructed characteristics.
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  This is from Plugfelder 2009.
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  So some of those that fell into this general theme, either gender neutral
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  or men, as seen instead of pretending that some sports are gender neutral.
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  And we need to try and understand how the discourses that surround different
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  sports help create driver identity because of the technology that may
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  overwhelm any gender distinctions.
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  That was another one from Plug Felder that was a couple pages later.
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  Academic work environment, again, this was kind of how academic works surrounding
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  gender studies and how they interacted with in the context of motorsport.
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  An example from one of the articles, indeed following Alfred Adler's
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  groundbreaking recent scholarship, substantiates that tend to overcompensate
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  in a sense of overdoing gender and in so doing inadvertently reveal
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  themselves to be sensitive to threats.
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  The R. N. D. And exertion.
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  The exertion ones in particular were studies of how either injuries or actual
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  physical exertion like loss of sweat changes and glucose levels and similar
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  would occur for both male and female drivers and on track simulation or an
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  actual measurement after It's worth mentioning here is that there were many
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  studies across the potential sample that did not include any representatives
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  that were women, meaning in the ones that were not included in this part,
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  but there were a lot of studies that just looked at male drivers from
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  an exercise science perspective.
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  And exclusion.
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  Exclusion referred to instances across the data set where women were
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  being excluded from racing or were being pressured not to participate.
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  For example, after dispelling some very early prejudice in the 1930s
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  domesticization of women coupled with the rapid professionalism of the sport
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  has Limited participatory opportunities and continue to fuel mediated stereotypes
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  about women drivers and in motor sports women have had to fight prejudice and
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  bias in a sport dominated by men as men made the rules to suit themselves and
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  the Women were expected to accept them.
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  That's from Matthews and Pike in 2016 and their article titled what on earth
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  are they doing in a race car towards an understanding of women in motor sports?
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  so some of the titles Definitely show a negative side to that power dynamic.
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  So after looking at these results, one of the things we wanted to see was how
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  different would this be if we basically didn't use those 27 criteria that I
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  talked about, but reduce that list down to basically say if an article mentions
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  women in any form or fashion through the full text, how would those results differ?
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  So we basically did the same thing over again.
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  So the postdoc results and postdoc here means we didn't experiment.
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  We thought of something funny afterwards.
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  So we're going to chase that rabbit down that rabbit hole and see what happens.
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  So we had three general themes for this one, which included competition
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  and fandom, which Lexa Mancer said was racing and NASCAR gendered motor sports.
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  Which Lex and Lancer pumped out with women and Faye Taylor.
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  Faye Taylor was one of the subjects for one of the manuscripts and
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  it was interesting to see that the computer analysis pumped
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  that out as a separate theme.
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  And then measurements, which is basically how did the original authors, what
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  did they do with their experiment, which Lexamancer came up with, used.
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  So for these, the differences were pretty stunning.
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  In that there was a little bit of crossover, but for whatever reason, an
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  independent computer pumped out one of the articles itself as its own theme.
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  So we kind of found that interesting there.
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  And most of the results were geared towards.
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  Men in that portion, male drivers.
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  So some of the discussion bits, to start to wrap up.
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  When we started this, I told my student I would be surprised if
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  there were six or seven articles.
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  Thinking that, that might be the high end of things.
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  We were pleasantly surprised on that front.
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  But there's definitely a lot more work that can be done from an academic sense.
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  We obviously need to look for different ways to analyze women in
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  motorsports from different perspectives.
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  We need to keep doing the history stuff.
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  We need to get the history stuff out there a little bit more.
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  But some of the speculation as to why we're not able to do that is, in many
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  of the history articles themselves, we found that yes, the The article
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  included a substantial amount of racing overview of the women driver
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  from a biographical sense, but it was usually tied to something else.
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  So we mentioned Faye Taylor earlier, and in the article that was basically
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  a biopic of Faye Taylor, it starts off mostly describing her as a
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  racer, some of the public renown that she had, but eventually goes into
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  her life, her political feelings.
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  Which were overwhelmingly fascist, and her interactions with MI5 and the
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  CIA because of those fascist leanings.
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  So, one of the things that we thought is, it's weird that we're not really talking
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  about the drivers in some sense, and we got another sense too, that many of
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  these peer reviewers may say, well it's just racing, we need a little bit more.
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  And we argue that you don't really need that.
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  Now there's obviously a crowd of folks who have an interest in this.
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  I think we can get a lot of things going, particularly through SAH and a
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  shameless plug for my journal, JMCH.
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  So to end with.
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  One of the articles actually had some cool photos about the Red X around
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  Australia trials around the 1950s.
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  So picture one was a women's weekly magazine crew that entered
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  the Red X around Australia and featured an all women's team
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  which included military members.
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  Picture 2 features Winifred Conway, who when trying to find sponsorships for the
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  Reddix around Australia races in 1953, had to call over 100 businesses to secure
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  minor sponsorships for her vehicle.
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  Sydney Australian Austin dealership was approached to sponsor Conway's
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  Austin A40, in which they told her that they already sponsored two teams
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  and would not sponsor her vehicle.
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  In response, Conway said that she was driving a Monarch from
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  Germany, totally fictitious vehicle.
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  And other than the experience of the drive itself, Conway said that she was
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  really only in the race to compete for a prize of an automatic pop up toaster in
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  which Women's Weekly, Red X Organizers, and the owner of the previously mentioned
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  dealership would supply her with one each.
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  So she tripled what her expected winnings were.
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  But at the end of the day, and the point of this whole article is, we have
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  a base of where women in motorsports is from an academic sense, and I think
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  we can do a hell of a lot better.
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  Thank you for your time.
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  Thanks, Mike.
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  I was hoping you could condense that down to two or three articles
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  I could pick up on my way home tonight, but I got a list here.
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  That was pretty fascinating.
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  very much for your presentation.
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  I do have one scholarly critique.
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  Sure.
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  When you use search terms that you're limiting the title and abstract to women.
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  I think you are very much presenting a narrow perspective.
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  It's articles that are focusing on women as other.
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  It's harping on the fact that they're women.
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  Versus the numerous articles that are out there discussing, you
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  know, racing drivers who are quite successful who, oh, happen to be women.
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  And And I just think that that perhaps colors some of the results that you
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  wind up with and how narrow they are.
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  Yes.
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  As I mentioned in the beginning, this is part one.
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  Part two was getting more at that.
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  Of looking at successful drivers who happen to be women and
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  including them in the search terms.
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  After five million, we needed a break.
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  Six million, whatever it was.
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  So like I said, this is part one.
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  I expect there to be a little bit more, but yeah Thank you for your comment
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  Francis the Baconator says is there an increase in the frequency of literature
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  as we are starting to focus more on the history of women in motorsports and
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  are pushing for more participation Hmm.
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  The only, I wouldn't even call it hardcore great evidence to back up Francis the
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  Baconator's comment would be this slide of the frequency of publications per
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  year, in which, yeah, there were two in 2023, and kind of suggests that
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  there's more of a positively going trend post 2015, but There's really not
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  enough data points to even make that point for sure, but subjectively, yeah,
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  you might be on onto something there.
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  Great name, for instance, the Baconator follow up to that.
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  You show 11 out of the 12 in there.
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  Do you remember where the 12th one was?
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  What year was in?
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  Wow.
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  So I do.
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  That tells you there is a trend.
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  Yes.
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  Since 2000, let's say that there is an increase in it.
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  And certainly, I think everybody's awareness of People that are working
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  outside of the normal standards of jobs.
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  So I think the same thing would apply to male nurses, for instance.
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  You would find out that there's more written on those types of things
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  since the years 2000 or some place.
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  And up because we're putting more focus in our world today on.
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  It's acceptable.
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  It's okay for people to do the non standard, if you will, occupations.
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  I mean, my wife is an engineer.
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  She graduated in 79.
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  I think I can count on both hands the number of female engineers.
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  She graduated with, you know, thanks for pointing that out 2016.
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  It's 2016, so add one to 2016.
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  Elizabeth Blackstock writes, We've talked about Faye Taylor's fascism
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  and touched on Helen Nice's potential Nazi ties in to Lin's keynote.
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  Is there a larger trend of tying women in motorsport to politics as opposed to men?
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  Um, maybe for academic research, another one of the articles to give
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  an example from the expanded search.
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  It occurred during the Bush versus Gore presidential race, and it was about
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  NASCAR dads and protective mothers.
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  I forget the exact term that was used there, but it did seem that there was
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  Maybe not to the extent of it being substantial, but there was evidence of
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  some politicalization there, for sure.
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  Um, she was, um, a very good female racer.
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  It was post, like, World War II, about the time frame that most of
• 24:26
  the article was written about her.
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  Let's just leave it at that.
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  Do you consider women in the publishing industry, like Denise McCluggage, or
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  Alana Sher, who writes for Car and Driver, etc., or Beverly Rae Kimes,
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  I think her name was, the historian?
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  Those publications are great, but they were not included in this
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  sample, mostly because they weren't academic, peer reviewed in one
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  So that's why they weren't considered for this.
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  Essays and books.
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  Yes, so there was one, the mathematics teaching in middle school, but
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  really that was the only one that we found through this search process.
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  I'm sure there's more, which kind of speaks to redefining
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  the search terms as well.
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  And how many grad students do you go through on this project?
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  One undergraduate student.
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  We were both men, admittedly.
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