ABSTRACT
The twentieth century has seen far-reaching developments which have sharply changed society in modern industrialized countries, affecting the way in which people have come to understand their surroundings. Changing attitudes to sport, and to the way in which people take part in sport, cannot be examined in isolation from the society in which they occur, since sport is not an isolated part of life. Rather, it is an integral part of life in society (Bierhoff-Alfermann 1983:20). We can conclude that social phenomena are reflected in the social subsystem which we know as sport. This is why many of the problems of women’s sport are clearly not problems which are specific to sport-instead, they are rooted in social traditions and situations. Nonetheless, many problems either arise, manifest themselves or are passed on through the medium of sport. Women and girls enjoy equal rights in sport to a much lesser degree than the legal basis of democratic society might lead one to suppose.
