ABSTRACT
Sport in New Zealand developed in ways peculiar to it being a small, young, geographically isolated country colonised by Britain. Women’s experiences of sport in this country were greatly influenced by these characteristics, and by a social history that came from pioneering in a male-dominated, agriculturally based capitalist economy. Under these conditions, a society emerged that was strongly marked by gender, in which women’s and men’s sports tended to evolve separately and, in some cases, distinctly differently.
