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Featured Articles of the month-It's May, and that means it is time for the 9th annual National Women's Health Week. This year it kicks off on Mother's Day, May 11, 2008 and will be celebrated until May 17, 2008. National Women's Check-Up Day will be Monday, May 12, 2008. Check it out below. National Women's Health Week: May 11-17, 2008, coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health (OWH) Ways to Celebrate National Women's Health Week Tips for Planning Health Events Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-women's health week
General Articles For copyright reasons, WSI can only send you to their web sites. Be sure to come back to us. -Women/Entertainment-The attention that female athletes receive usually comes in the form of sexploitation, which is aimed at the male audience. Read this provocative article about women athletes in the media. -Read about Ria Cortesio-first female umpire to work a major league exhibition game since Pam Postema in 1989. -Research Finds Lack of Women's Coverage -Women of Color in Sports: Double Jeopardy -Yoga for Healthy Blood Pressure -Mythbusting: What Every Female Athlete Should Know! Get the facts about the rights of female athletes, their interest in sports and why it's a great idea to play. -Women in NCAA athletics: Twenty-five years later -Will Olympic Softball end in Beijing in 2008, or will the dream continue for the up and coming softball stars? -Read about Waneek Horn-Miller, the most decorated athlete at the North American Indigenous Games and the first female Mohawk to compete at the Olympic Games, who also overcame being stabbed to become an outstanding water polo player. -Strength Training for women -Coaching With Respect-Embarrassing and demeaning students to make them play better just isn't good coaching, and there's more to being a good coach than just tallying up a win. -Resolve to stay injury free in 2006 -First Women to play College basketball- and it was on a men's team -The Diet Detective: Exercise myths and facts -Common Running Injuries-from Running 4 Women Website -A Thankful article on how far women's basketball has come. -Pioneering Ref has no Beefs-catching up with Dee Katner -Sex Roles Living the paradox: female athletes negotiate femininity and muscularity -Why All Women Should Exercise -Ten Reasons Women Should Lift Weights -Stress Fractures-what are they, how are they caused and how to treat them -Women's Bodies in Sports Ads-the article contends women in ads are posing not playing -Pioneering Women-read about women who coach men and the trials they go through -Her Life Depends on it- This report points to physical activity and sport as fundamental solutions for many of the serious health and social problems faced by American girls. -Girls of Summer-read about the true League of their own-story by Ellen Klages -Redefining Aging-with an eye to sports and Physical Intelligence. -Tomboys were right-a poem by Mariah Burton Nelson -Athletics in the Lives of Women and Girls-(Empowering Women in Sports,The Empowering Women Series, No. 4; A Publication of the Feminist Majority Foundation)
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