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This article provides recommendations for the study of women in hormones and competition research. The goal of social neuroendocrinology is to discover the hormonal underpinnings of socially-relevant behaviors. However, studies of hormones and human competition, highlighted in this special issue, have focused primarily on men and approached study designs with a male-centric understanding of competition. We encourage researchers to expand theories on hormones and competitive and status-motivated behavior with concerted attention to gender socialization and related social context factors. Additionally, researchers should explore relationships between competitive behavior and other ‘sex’hormones such as estradiol and progesterone that may be particularly relevant to competitive behavior in women. Researchers test for gender as a factor in statistical analyses with combined samples of men and …