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I mean factor 2 is a bit much but if you want everyone to finish roughly in the same time frame distribution, you either have to do a shorter route or have the women start earlier. Otherwise you will have a decent time gap between male and female race finishers, which looks even worse if u ask me.
Gender equality is usually not about physical performance because everyone knows that there is a gap there that wont go away anytime soon. Its about socioeconomic factors like pay, medical issues, etc
I don’t see the issue in letting everyone run the same 10 km at the same time. A man will probably finish first, so what? Equality is not about being the same, it’s about being equal. You can easily have separate results for men and women. In fact, that’s pretty standard for these kinds of amateur races in my experience. You can also have multiple start times based on self reported running speeds. Also pretty common and avoids slow people being in the way of fast people.