Most female sporting environments still lack the systems, resources, and literacy to manage menstrual-cycle–related challenges.
Drawing on insights from hundreds of athletes and support staff across more than 22 sports, this international study exposes how gendered systems and cultural stigma have created a performance landscape of “impact without infrastructure” in women’s sport.
It outlines seven actionable pillars to build a Female Athlete Supportive Environment (FASE) that integrates menstrual health into everyday performance systems.
What’s Inside
- Global insights: A comprehensive analysis of menstrual health support across both professional and nonprofessional sport.
- The performance blind spot: Only 26% of practitioners work with systems they deem suitable for assessing the Menstrual Cycle effect on health and performance.
- Seven pillars of FASE: Practical guidance across education, communication, training, medical care, wellness, resources, and research—a roadmap for turning awareness into structure.
- Systemic barriers: How sport’s male-defined frameworks overlook half the physiology they serve, and what teams can do to redesign support through a female lens.
