Underrepresentation of women in exercise science and physiology research is associated with authorship gender.

Historically, low representation of women participants in exercise science and physiology studies has led to a lack of understanding in the response of women to exercise and therapeutic interventions. We hypothesized that ) the number of women authors, participants, and editorial board members increased over 30 years (1991-2021) and ) larger representation of women as editors and authors is associated with more women participants. Gender (man/woman) of editorial board members ( = 394), authors ( = 5,735), and participants ( = 2,984,883) of 972 original research articles with human participants published in 1991 and 2021 was analyzed from three journals: , , and .