On the other hand the women 100 m world record has been the same for almost 40 years now (
36, to be more precise), I don’t see how anyone could improve on that by a wide margin in the next 40 years.
The anemometer at the track was reading zero during the race, but people there on the day say it was windy, and the anemometer at the triple jump a few metres away read over 4 m/s. So the suggestion is that the track anemometer wasn't functioning.
Today’s women doubtless could beat those records with modern gear and pharmaceutical enhancements.
The physical disparity is not a social issue, it's biology; the social component can be argued, however. How we choose to categorize within sports is in our control and opinions will go either way - in my opinion, the separation of men's and women's sports was done to try to correct for that physical disparity caused by biology, if that's undone, I think the top records will be dominated by individuals with biological male sex, regardless of gender, in all categories.