1 INTRODUCTION The call to prioritize research on females in areas including medicine (O'Bryan et al., 2022), nutrition (Kuikman et al., 2023; Rogan & Black, 2023), psychology (Avila-Varela et al., 2024), exercise physiology (Lew et al., 2022) and sport (Burden et al., 2024) continues to grow, with increasing recognition of the need to address the historical under-representation of this population in studies.