Word: sportswomen
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...pause. Meanwhile, women can rejoice in the freedom of movement afforded by a silhouette that is as short on short skirts as it is on the spiky bracelets, studded handbags and other hard-edged accessories that were hot five minutes ago. Clotheshorses can get in touch with their inner sportswomen in sleek, graceful wools and leathers eminently practical for a brisk pony ride down Fifth Avenue or a fox hunt in the backyard...
...also called the women athletes "dabblers," rather than committed sportswomen, Paget says. Three other Radcliffe athletes say Watson also called them "dabblers" when they requested longer or prime time hours. Asked in an interview whether he had so branded women athletes, Watson did not deny the charge and repeated that most women's programs "are not as intense...
Often, the newly enthusiastic sportswomen still find a paucity of programs, facilities and funds available to them. Until last April, for example, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women forbade recipients of athletic scholarships to compete in its intercollegiate events. That rule has now been rescinded under pressure of a lawsuit, but financial aid for women is still hard to get. At sports-heavy University of Miami, where 300 men receive athletic scholarships, there are now 15 new one-year scholarships for women in tennis, golf and swimming. To date this spring there have been more than 400 applicants...
Strong emphasis was placed on the "self-image" each girl has of herself, and response indicated significant discrepancy between the participant and non-participant. "Other-directed" tendencies were prominent in active sportswomen, while the inactive girls were decidedly "inner" oriented...
...menstrual disorders. But Illinois' Dr. Gyula J. Erdelyi insists that most of these fears are groundless. Reporting last week on a study of 729 Hungarian women athletes, Dr. Erdelyi called masculinization claims highly exaggerated," said that unfavorable changes in the menstrual cycle occur no more frequently among sportswomen (about 10%) than among nonathletic females. He also studied 172 pregnant women athletes, found complications of pregnancy less frequent than among nonathletes. Labor time was generally shorter, and the frequency of Caesarean sections half that of less active women...