Since the first officially sanctioned women’s bout on 1993, the AIBA has more than 15 years of data showing women’s amateur boxing is safer than men’s.The overall incidence of orthopedic injuries in women boxers is extremely low, hand injuries are rare and lower extremity injuries are almost nonexistent. In boxing which only allows arm blows, women suffer injury and concussion less commonly than men. Many scientific studies have shown that female athletes who participate in Olympic style boxing are no more likely to have chronic mental impairment than athletes who do not box.Trauma to the breast has never been associated with increased cancer risk in any sport.  This is supported by all known data in all published studies. Young women who are pregnant may not box. All female athletes must sign a declaration of non pregnancy before being allowed to compete.

Part of boxing’s incredible development in recent years has also been the increase in popularity of women’s boxing. Women’s boxing promotes the sport for everyone. There are many benefits to gain by including women boxing in the 2012 Olympic Games: When female boxers are included in the Olympic Games, media exposure, sponsorship opportunities, fan appeal and worldwide presence at the Olympic Games will increase and, more importantly, the values of gender equity within the IOC would finally be addressed and rectified

Continental Women’s Boxing Championships have been held 18 times on the following continents :
Africa - 1 , Pan - America - 4 ,  Asia - 4 , Oceania - 3 (together with men’s event) Europe - 6

European  Host Countries:

• 2001, France: 78 boxers - 14 countries
• 2003, Hungary:117 boxers - 21 countries
• 2004, Italy: 116 boxers - 16 countries
• 2005, Norway: 100 boxers - 18 countries
• 2006, Poland:126 boxers - 22 countries
• 2007, Denmark: 137 boxers - 26 countries

Women’s World Championships in boxing have been organized five times and the number of countries and participants has grown steadily. In 2008, during the AIBA Women’s World Championships in Ningbo City, China , 218  women boxers,, including Katie Taylor, from 39 countries participated in the boxing matches for the world title.

• 2001 Scranton, USA: 124 boxers - 31 countries
• 2002 Antalya, Turkey:185 boxers - 31 countries
• 2005 Podolsk, Russia:139 boxers - 30 countries
• 2006 New Delhi, India:174 boxers - 33 countries
• 2008 Ningbo City, China: 218 boxers - 39 countries
• 2010 Bridgetown, Barbados; - yet unknown