January 8, 1999

Despite the Positive Rhetoric About Women's Sports, Female Athletes Face a Culture of Sexual Harassment

By LESLIE HEYWOOD

Last October, Nike, Secret antiperspirant, and the Partnership for Women's Health at Columbia University announced Helping Girls Become Strong Women, an alliance formed in response to an on-line survey conducted by Seventeen and Ladies' Home Journal. That survey found that 50 per cent of the 1,100 girls polled reported feeling depressed at least once a week; 29 per cent felt somewhat or very uncomfortable with their

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