You might find this women's basketball story interesting:

When I was a business school prof in Riga I played basketball every week with students from my school and others. One week I had three women students as teammates against a team of four guys who were bigger, stronger and faster, but didn't lacked teamwork. Before the game I told them, play as a team with fast passing, screens and on defense and you'll win. Above all, don't let them smell weakness and push back twice as hard if they push you around. We beat the guys 11-6 in 20 minutes. They never knew what hit them. I still remember how shocked they looked.

Basketball is a kind of high speed 3-d chess in which there are two kinds of players:

1. Killers, who know, when they have flow, how to smell weakness in their opponents and act on it.

2. All the rest.

More men than women naturally go for being #1. Women, whether from lower testosterone or cultural conditioning, or both, seem to need social permission to go for #1, even from other women. My Latvian women teammates got permission and played like #1.