[QUOTE 5124525, member: 9609"]of course we can and I hope we do, did I not suggest this in my second sentence?
What sport comes from gathering though ? sport seems to mostly come from the hunting / warring part of our culture, traits very much associated with males.
Getting back to the OP, I still think the reason we see less women cycling is that sport / exercise does not appeal to them in the same way as it does to men. I'm sure there is a big Nature/Nurture balance to this, and hopefully as society develops and we have more gender neutral upbringings then we will see more women cycling, but I doubt it.
On a wider thought, the days of muscle and strength are over as it can all be now done by machine, the future is in creativity, and in this field men could well be on the back foot. I think we need gender neutral upbringings to reinvent men not women.[/QUOTE]
Actually most sports are based on 3D spacial awareness, not necessarily hunting.