Across dozens of sports, women's world speed records consistently fall 10 percent short of men's records.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...re-not/260927/
So it's not exactly getting smashed, but there's a pretty consistent gap.
The fastest female 100m dash in history, set in 1988, is just as good as the men's record set from 1921.
In freestyle swimming, the women's world record time is as fast as the men's time was in 1968.