“…Birman-Chillingworth [2, Theorem 1] (for closed surfaces), Szepietowski [22, Lemma 3] (for surfaces with boundaries) and Gonçalves-Guaschi-Maldonado [8, Theorem 1.1] (for surfaces with punctures) proved that the mapping class group of a nonorientable surface N b g,p is a subgroup of the mapping class group of the orientation double cover S 2b g−1,2p (we will describe the induced injective homomorphism in Section 3). In this paper we show the following as an application of the semihyperbolicity of the mapping class group of orientable surfaces, independently established by Durham-Minsky-Sisto [6, Corollary D] and Haettel-Hoda-Petyt [9,Corollary 3.11] Theorem 1.1. For all but (g, p, b) = (2, 0, 0), the mapping class group Mod(N b g,p ) is undistorted in the mapping class group Mod(S 2b g−1,2p ).…”