My non-medical person understanding is that the physiology and mechanics in the knee are very different but beyond that it is a "no one knows" situation which seems shameful.
Again, have zero medical background and am not a woman but my mental model from my wife and daughters' experience and from paying a lot of attention to professional women's soccer is that it is simultaneously true that there are a huge number of physical/biological things when it comes to athletics that completely different in women and yet also that they are entirely unstudied. Like it is just a crazy giant blind spot.
My sports photography habit has gotten me out to all kinds of games and I've discovered I really like women's field hockey which is almost exclusively a female sport in North America. I was surprised to find out that men's field hockey is super big internationally, because unlike soccer, people in the US never got the message the field hockey was a huge international game.
Overall women and girls are playing more than, say, 10 years ago. But they still play considerably less than men and boys, at all levels, at least in soccer, and there are many, many more joint injuries.
