Abstract
Women's interscholastic athletics have long been a component of the popular culture of the United States. However, programs for girls evolved more slowly than those for boys throughout the years. In fact, impressions exist of women's sports being suppressed in this country for some time. Such sentiment, however, need not be held for the period of the last decade or so. It is doubtful, indeed, that sports for women have ever been more generally dynamic than in the past ten years. During this period, both regional distribution and number of participants in several women's high school sports have adjusted to varying degrees to major factors impacting upon them. The purposes of this paper are to determine the present geography of women's interscholastic sports in the United States and to explain spatial patterns which have developed.
Recommended Citation
Ojala, Carl F.
(1987)
"A Geography of Major Interscholastic Women's Sports in the United States,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 29:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
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https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol29/iss1/3