Word: sportswomen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...