How come women aren't better at shooting sports?
I understand why men are faster runners than women. That is to say, if you have an Olympic gold medal male runner, and an Olympic gold medal female runner, I think the male runner will be faster because physically, they have stronger muscles so they should be faster. Same thing with sports like weightlifting, swimming etc...
But why with shooting sports? I would think that males and females could have the same speed trigger fingers, the same speed hand to eye coordination, the same accuracy, have the same speed reloads, the same speed draws, the only thing that I think males would have an advantage on, could be running but there's not "a lot" of running usually in shooting sports, so why aren't the top shooters like Lena Miculek, Jesse Duff, Julie Golob, and Janna Reeves... ever beating out the male shooters.
One thing I can think of is numbers. There are just so many more male shooters than female shooters that the chances of the women beating the men is statistically challenging. Eventually yes, a female shooter will be number one, it just hasn't happened yet. But I really don't buy that answer as there's been so many competitions, and I don't think a female shooter has ever been the number one shooter.
My other theory is that men have a greater "drive" to shoot fast and accurate, more than women do. Let's face it, I'll bet some of even the best competitive female shooters, still prefer the color pink over camo, and prefer to go shoe shopping than hunting. So "maybe" men have more of a "will" to shoot better than women, but still... I'd think that there'd be at least one female shooter who could be the top two or three in the country.
Im not trying to be sexist here, as I feel that women actually "should" be just as fast and accurate as men. I just don't understand why they're not.
Any thoughts?