Can we improve races for Females?

After seeing this post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYfqgqjPBx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== and the numerous comments it became much more apparent how races may not be equally accommodating for men and women.

There seems to be a lot of unique features about a race - beyond just distance and month - that come in to play when choosing a race for women. I want to make our Race Explorer as useful as possible and will therefore be implementing as many of these features as possible. As a man though I am well aware that my experience is not representative of the experience of everybody. Therefore, I want to collaboratively create a roadmap where we can go from the current state to initially including these filters in our Race Explorer, but then leading straight in to trying to convey to all race organisers the importance of said features. The hope is that race organisers will then tweak and improve their current races to be more enjoyable and approachable for everyone.

A loose roadmap:

1a. Generate a rough list of features that are important to women when selecting a race to enter. For simplicities sake I think a Google Form will do fine here. It's not the prettiest but the focus is on getting the needs of women listed ASAP so we can move forward.

1b. Survey of those features and a rough priority order.

2. Contact race organisers to see which of these features they currently include. This may be sped up by a community effort of manually looking up the data on race organisers websites. Worst case I will do it solo but that will naturally take longer.

3. Update the Race Explorer feature set to allow races to be found using said features.

4. Contact race organisers to discuss their openness to introducing some/all of these features.

I would love feedback on this, please email me at support@tortoiseendurance.com. Also if you want to be kept updated with the progress of this then ping me over an email and I can do so. :)

Additional Information 1 - added 02/08:

If we select a random race such as Rob Burrow Marathon there is about 1,000 women who did it last year. Following the average of 5 days taken from this page: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/periods/ that means ~167 women could be menstruating during the race. This is assuming random distribution which given the cycle of one woman is independent from another woman is a statistically valid assumption. Asking women to "contact us in advance" or "let us know on the day" is just a huge organisational burden the race organiser would benefit from not having, but also that's 167 runners who have to disrupt their race prep and focus, to go and find the person to inform.