Not sure but I’d believe it. With wider pelvises, the angles of their femurs are more inward than mens, vertical stresses put more stress on the femur even though women weigh less and also have less upper body mass than men. Further mens muscles are denser (plus we have more) and can take more stress than females. We have significantly more fast twitch fibers and thats what makes our muscle fibers denser.
So I completely believe this is plausible.
I’ve read that 15% of the female Army officers had pelvis fractures from marching, those are from a 15 or 25 year old book.
Back in olden days when our daughters started playing soccer, I was among a group of dads that started taking our girls to see the Washington Freedom, DC’s women’s professional team in the old league. When that league folded, we continued through the interim period when the top women’s league was the W League, and the local team was the DC United Women’s Team. Then the NWSL was formed, and we have continued with the Washington Spirit. It’s now been a long time.
We did this because men’s and women’s soccer are very different games and we thought it would be wise to take our little munchkins to watch the kind of soccer they might grow up to play. Several of them developed into very competitive players in the local travel leagues and on into college, though none at the D1 or professional level.
Anyhow, it’s still a father-daughter group, and we’ve enjoyed it over the years. One byproduct is that we’ve followed the league and some of the chatter surrounding it.
In recent years, the shift in the conversation about physiological differences has been startling. A decade ago, the chatter was mostly about how the women needed better coaching, better fields, better training. But now, the serious discussion is dominated by very frank discussions about bone structure, musculature, and assorted other sex-linked factors. The serious people are coming around. The idiot chatter among the press and much of the public hasn’t caught on yet, but that will come.
Women are going to suffer more injuries of various types, including ACL tears. That doesn’t mean they should stop playing soccer. The great majority of players will never have an ACL tear. It just means that expectations should be reality-based.