The Boards Wisdom of Mothers Postcards Resources Search Fit and Feisty Join our list to share your thoughts about fitness, weight and health issues. The recent USA World Cup victory has catapulted soccer and women's sports in general to new heights. The advances of the Women's National Basketball Association and the success of women in professional tennis and golf have captured unprecedented attention and purses. Yet, these historic national and international gains have trickled down slowly to the local level.
Women are still only about one-third of interscholastic and intercollegiate athletes.
A 1996 U.S. General Accounting Office study revealed eight national gender equity studies showing gains in the number of women's sports that schools offer to the percentage of scholarship funds available to female students, but many women's athletics programs lagged behind those for men in a variety of categories. Join the team by visiting our coverage. While not every eye in the tennis world may be on Venus and Serena Williams, U.S. tennis is clearly hoping the two sisters can help revive the current doldrums surrounding the sport. Still, women's tennis has come a long way since Billie Jean King. See our coverage tennis .